Link to the Show / Show NotesAn indulgent look into Sontag's personal life via Annie Leibovitz's new photo memoir, A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005. If Sontag's art was about transcending the self, what can we see about her personal life that is not expressed in her writing? An intimate look at love, life, travel, birth, and death, circled around the idea of photos as a memento mori, or reminders of death. "All photograph's are memeto mori," Sontag wrote in her book On Photography in 1973. A glimpse into the fight for life and death seen through the eyes of her lover and through her son's eyes.
Hear some archived interviews with Sontag, including snippets of her personal life and life as a mother from The Connection.org or listen to interviews with friend and host of KCRW's Bookworm, Michael Silverblatt.
What should you do before you die? Make pizza in your home oven! Try this pizza dough recipe courtesey of the Los Angeles Times.
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