I was struck by this exchange in a recent Vanity Fair interview of film director Petro Aldomovar, because our group has read both the Colm Toibin books he references (The Master in 2005 and The Magician in 2023, respectively). I'm not familiar with the Moser biography of Susan Sontag that Aldmovar praises, but color me intrigued!
There’s another book by Sigrid Nunez that you could have adapted, Sempre Susan, about Susan Sontag.
It’s true. In fact, I was a friend of Susan’s. I saw her quite often either when she was in Spain or when I went to New York to promote my films. I really liked the biography of her that Benjamin Moser wrote, which won a Pulitzer Prize. It reads like a novel. I’m not a big fan of biographies, except ones where the author has to invent details and they actually end up being truer to their subjects. Or, at least, I enjoy them more. Like the fictionalized books that Colm Tóibín wrote about Henry James and Thomas Mann, which revealed what those two complex writers were hiding behind their prose.
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