as taxi driver, 365–66
Rieff, Gabriel “Joseph,” 107–8, 113–14
Rieff, Ida Horwitz, 107–8, 113–14
Rieff, Martin, 107–8
Rieff, Philip
appearance of, 106–7
background of, 105–8, 121, 209
birth and childhood of, 107–8
character and personality of, 106–7, 110
David and, 142, 147, 168, 169–72, 179–80, 363–64, 411
custody fight, 186, 209–11
Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, 113, 120–29, 171–72
illness and death of, 130, 690–91
late writings of, 129–30
notions of female propriety, 129, 130
Susan’s marriage and relationship with, 105, 108–18, 135–36, 142, 151, 155, 164, 186, 363–64, 387, 599–600
child support and alimony, 171–72
Susan’s decision to leave, 143–48
divorce, 171–72, 179–80
proposal and marriage, 109–18
separation, 167–70
Susan’s name change, 115–16
university career of, 105–6, 108–9, 112–13, 116–17, 145, 168, 169
at University of Chicago, 98, 103, 105–6
Riesman, David, 98
Rimbaud, Arthur, 111, 292
Ritalin, 692
Riverside Drive apartment, 264, 364–65, 407–8, 414–15
Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 260, 428, 453, 573–74
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 354
Rockefeller, John D., 94
Rodin, Merrill, 61, 62, 83, 161
Los Angeles gay culture, 88–91
Susan’s deceitfulness, 405, 637
at University of Chicago, 88, 103
visits with Mann, 67–72, 101
Rogers Park, Chicago, 105–6, 113–14
Roh Tae-woo, 486
Rolling Stone (magazine), 492–501, 531–32
Rolling Stones (band), 498–99, 597
Rollyson, Carl, 625–27, 630–31
Ronstadt, Linda, 496–97
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 117
Roosevelt, Franklin, 206, 284
Rosenblatt, Gussie, 19–20, 38
Rosenblatt, Jack, 3, 117–18
appearance of, 21
background of, 19–20
business interests of, 20, 21–22
childhood of, 19–20
in China, 17–22
death of, 9, 24, 28, 30
mistresses of, 22–23
tuberculosis of, 20–21, 27, 38
Rosenblatt, Mildred
alcoholism of, 9, 31, 33–34, 35–36, 45, 194, 447–48, 476, 755n
appearance of, 17, 19, 24, 31–32, 476, 477
in Auction of Souls, 2–3, 18
cancer of, 476–77
childhood of, 18–19, 25
in China, 17–23, 337
China train journey, 25–27
death of, 477–80
in Honolulu, 403–4, 475–76
in Los Angeles, 55–56, 57–60
marriage to Jack, 19, 21, 22–23
death, 26–27, 30–31
marriage to Nathan, 50–52, 55, 65, 80, 181, 214, 404–4, 479
parenting of Susan and Judith, 23–26, 30, 31–32, 34–36, 37–38, 42, 74–75, 80–81
suitors of, 31–32, 50–51
in Tucson, 44–50
Rosenblatt, Samuel, 19–20
Rosenblatt, Sonny, 37
Roth, Philip, 96, 571
Rothko, Mark, 269
Rothschild, Henri de, 332
Rothschild, James-Henri de, 332
Rothschild, Monique de, 331–32
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 200
Royal Road to Romance, The (Halliburton), 49
Rudge, Olga, 390
Rulfo, Juan, 430, 649
Rushdie, Salman, 483, 487–89, 586, 590
Ruskin, John, 232, 269
Russian Civil War, 107
Ryan, Kathy, 493
Sade, Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de, 99, 159, 163, 296, 297
sadomasochism, 10, 32, 81–82, 127, 162–63, 328, 399–401, 532–33
Sagan, Carl, 96
Said, Edward, 483, 489, 645–46
Saint Genet (Sartre), 454, 457
Saint-Laurent, Yves, 266, 581
San Fernando Valley, 56, 59
San Francisco, 84–86, 498
San Mateo, 169–70
Santa Claus, 38
Sarah Lawrence College, 200, 442
Sarajevo Film Festival, 556
Sarajevo Holiday Inn, 574–75
Sarraute, Nathalie, 4, 428
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 159–60, 161, 178, 267, 334, 335, 386, 536
“Sartre’s Abdication,” 452–55, 457–58
Sassoon, Vidal, 266
Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 487–89
Saturday Night Live (TV show), 403
Saturnine temperament, 381–83
Savonarola, Girolamo, 141
Schlafly, Phyllis, 396
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 430
Schoenberg, Arnold, 67, 113, 700
Schoenberg, Nuria, 71
Schoenman, Ralph, 432–33
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 63, 387
Schorske, Carl, 409–10
Shultz, George, 483–84
Schwab, Joseph, 101
science fiction, 59–60, 61, 354
Screen Tests, 227–28
Sebald, W. G., 392
Seeger, Pete, 433
Sekerez, Una, 562–63
self, the, 5, 10–11, 87, 166, 185, 186–87, 226, 245–46, 286–87, 296–97, 535–36, 603
Seligman, Craig, 520
Sellars, Peter, 442
Senhor (magazine), 501
September 11 attacks (2001), 656–63, 670
The New Yorker “Tuesday, and After,” 657–62
Serbians (Serbs), 552–54
Seroy, Jeff, 480–81
Seventeenth Street apartment, 414, 431, 507
sexism, 40, 127–28, 135, 153, 346
sexuality. See also homosexuality; lesbianism; sadomasochism
bisexuality, 83, 90, 128, 129–30, 628
Eros and Civilization (Marcuse), 142–43, 323
Freud and, 127–28, 163, 185, 201, 532–33
“The Bi’s Progress,” 90–91
Sexual Personae (Paglia), 546
sexual repression, 33, 373–74, 376
Shaughnessy, Brenda, 638–39, 642–43, 644, 651–53, 662
Shawn, Allen, 450
Sherman Oaks, California, 57–58, 67
Sherrington, C. S., 269
Shilts, Randy, 519
Shnayerson, Michael, 471–72, 504–5
Sicily, 277–78
siege of Leningrad, 555
Siege of Sarajevo, 13, 554–67, 573–95, 614–15, 674
golden age of the “Susan Story,” 587–92
Waiting for Godot, 4, 14, 573–85
“Why Are We in Kosovo?,” 618–19
Signorile, Michelangelo, 464, 472, 514–15, 516, 520–21
Silverblatt, Michael
Annie and Susan, 528, 531–32, 663
childishness and Susan, 647–48, 651
Clinton and Susan, 619–20
Susan and the diva, 606–7
Susan’s cancer, 611–13, 681–82
Susan’s happiness, 601
Susan’s loneliness, 644, 681
Susan’s massage, 681–82
Silvers, Robert, 217, 424, 470, 508
Cuba trip with Susan, 324–26, 430
David and Susan, 411–12
Fornés and Susan, 173, 174
Padilla and, 430–31
“Sartre’s Abdication” (Sontag), 457–58
Susan and Vietnam, 307
Susan’s cancer, 370, 408
at University of Chicago, 94, 96, 98
Silverstein, Charles, 634
Silverstein, Sheldon “Shel,” 493
Simić, Goran, 581, 586
Sinatra, Frank,
57
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 213, 216
“Singleness,” 535–36, 644
Sino-Japanese War, 21, 26
Skidmore College, 545
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West (Rieff), 592–93
Slave, The (Singer), 216
Slovenia, 553–54
Smith, Jack, 234–36, 466
Smith, Patti, 502
Smokenders, 615, 616, 617
smoking, 170, 375–76, 615–17
snobbery, 61, 410–11
Socrates, 97, 98, 102
Sohmers, Harriet, 405, 534
background of, 84–85
Fornés’s relationship with, 157–58, 161
in Paris, 157–59, 163–66
Susan and her mother, 23–24
Susan’s relationship with, 84–85, 87–88, 102, 157–59, 163–64, 165–66, 176, 319–20
Solar Anus, The (Bataille), 401
Solidarity movement, 431–32
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 213, 385, 389
“Some Thoughts on the Right Way (for Us) to Love the Cuban Revolution,” 324–26
Sonnabend, Joseph, 461–62, 463
Sons and Lovers (Lawrence), 295
Sontag, Henriette, 247
Sontag, Nathan Stuart “Nat,” 50–52, 55, 65, 80, 171–72, 181, 214, 404, 475–76, 479
Sontag, Susan
appearance of, 4, 5, 95–96, 152
hairstyle, 403–4
asthma of, 37–38, 44
birth of David, 20, 117–18. See also Rieff, David Rosenblatt Sontag
cancer of, 43, 358–59, 366–72, 375–78, 405–6, 611–15, 622, 681–84, 693–97
cancer treatments, 367–68, 369–70, 377, 405–7, 408–9, 611–12, 687–95
celebrity and fame of, 4–6, 228, 238–42, 245–46, 286, 596–97, 600–601
character and personality of, 34, 61, 162, 236–37, 533–34
childhood and adolescence of, 9–10, 23–24, 26–28, 37–38
custody fight, 186, 209–11
death of, 697, 699–700
depression of, 368–69, 421
desire for popularity, 45, 52, 73–74, 89, 398
drug use of, 242–44, 246, 455–58
father’s death and, 26–27, 28, 30, 34–35
fear of death, 10, 46
food tastes of, 255
friendships of, 60–61, 135–36, 139, 481–82, 508–9, 533–34, 596, 641–42. See also specific friends
funeral of, 699–700
health insurance, lack of, 369–70, 408, 524
honesty and, 25, 73, 74–76
hygiene of, 341–42, 375
Jewish identity of, 41–44, 52
King Street apartment fire, 507–8, 511
loneliness of, 45, 48, 407–8, 409, 643–44
in Los Angeles, 55–57, 59–60, 67, 72–73, 88–90
memorial service for, 700
misfit status of, 39–40, 46
“Miss Librarian” nickname, 5
mother’s relationship with, 23–24, 30–38, 74–75, 80–82, 100–103, 112, 134–35, 167, 256, 258–59, 319–20, 404, 445–46, 476–80, 531
myth of, 13–14
name change of, 52–53, 115
“outing” of, 627–35
plagiarism charges, 636–38, 769–70n
pregnancy of, 111–14, 117
reading habits of, 35, 40–41, 48–49, 57–58, 63–65, 79, 82–84
role models of, 40–41
self-esteem of, 34, 82, 85, 634, 642
smoking of, 170, 375–76, 615–17, 681–82
suicide threats, 422, 447, 570–71
in Tucson, 44–50, 53, 60
Sontag-as-metaphor, 509–10, 650
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), 48
South Africa, 551, 645, 680–81
South Korea, 486–87
Soviet Union, 25–26, 212, 272, 385–86, 429
Soyinka, Wole, 213, 482, 483
Spanish Civil War, 41, 257, 561
Šparavalo, Vlajko, 578
Spender, Stephen, 696
Spider-Man 2 (film), 689
Spieler, Miranda, 405, 572, 587, 596
Spink, Judith, 152, 153, 155
Springsteen, Bruce, 426, 496
SS Paris, 714n
SS Regalia (Lumsden), 399–401
St. Luke’s Hospital, 176
Stalin, Joseph (Stalinism), 25–26, 205, 207, 385–86
Stanford University, 145
Starkie, Mr., 48
Statendam (ship), 111
Statue of Liberty, 213, 240, 284
Stein, Elliott, 163, 230, 355
Stein, Gertrude, 234, 441, 472, 548, 697
Steinbeck, John, 59
Steinberg, Leo, 260
Steiner, George, 96
Stella, Frank, 269
Stéphane, Nicole, 255, 623
Annie’s financial support of, 526–27
background of, 331–32
David and, 410, 411
Israel and Promised Lands, 344–45, 349
Susan in Sarajevo, 581–82
Susan’s relationship with, 332–36, 341, 364, 368, 406–7, 421
cancer, 368, 369, 370, 406–7, 690
Stonewall riots, 634
Storm, Theodor, 48
Storrs Agricultural School, 133
Story of O, The (Desclos), 163, 296–98
Story of the Eye (Bataille), 296–98
Strand, Oliver, 623, 665, 667, 675–76
Stranger, The (Camus), 190–91
Straus, Dorothea Liebmann, 211, 215–16, 528
Straus, Roger, 211–16, 364, 387, 508, 528
background of, 211–12
death of, 687
at FSG, 212–16, 223, 408, 411, 455, 510–11, 625, 638
Straus, Roger, III, 215
Strauss, Leo, 115, 153, 179
Stravinsky, Igor, 67, 113
Streisand, Barbra, 583, 663
Stupakoff, Otto, 501
Styles of Radical Will, 286, 287, 291, 293, 294
Styron, William, 5, 217, 238, 273, 483
Supremes, the, 262–63
surrealism, 184, 425
Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon (Rollyson and Paddock), 625–27, 630–31
Susan Sontag Square (Sarajevo), 557, 584
Sweden, 307–16, 326–27
“A Letter from Sweden,” 313–15
syncretism, 141–42
Syria, 13, 344
Tangier, 250
Tango Palace (Fornés), 220
Tatler (magazine), 504
Taubes, Ethan, 122, 257, 323–24
Taubes, Jacob, 210, 323–24, 327, 420
background of, 137–38
The Benefactor and, 200–201, 312
at Columbia, 142, 200–201
Susan’s affair with, 176–77
Susan’s authorship of Freud, 121–22, 171
Susan’s friendship with, 136–38, 148, 172–73
Taubes, Susan
background of, 137–38
The Benefactor and, 200
“Debriefing” (Sontag), 419–20
Divorcing, 220, 322, 323, 327
suicide of, 322–24
Susan’s friendship with, 135, 136–39, 176–77, 220–21
Taubes, Tanaquil “Tania,” 323–24
Tavel, Ronald, 312
Tax, Meredith, 482–83, 484
Taylor, Elizabeth, 260
Taylor, Jeremy, 367
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 61
Teal, Donn, 234
Telluride Film Festival, 391
Ten Days That Shook the World (Reed), 205
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 101
That Hamilton Woman (film), 537
Thek, Paul, 202, 265–66, 277–78, 410, 466–70, 531, 572
death of, 466–70
dedication of Against Interpretation to, 179, 265–66, 466
letter of 1978, 365, 414, 466, 467–68, 593
“thing-ness,” 278, 279, 281
“‘Thinking Against Oneself’: Reflections on Cioran,” 287–92
“Third World of Women, The,” 394
“Thirty Years Later,” 270
Thomas, D. M., 637
Thomas, Dylan, 193
Thomas, Hugh, 257
Thompson, Hunter S., 500
Thomson, David, 701
Thomson, Virgil, 441
Thurmond, Strom, 234–35
Tiananmen Square massacre, 552
Tientsin, China, 21–22, 26, 28
Tillich, Paul, 139, 144
Time (magazine), 207, 239
Toklas, Alice, 697
Tolk-Watkins, Peggy, 84–85
Tolstoy, Leo, 257, 695
Topić, Velibor, 578–79
Town Bloody Hall (film), 395–96
Town Hall (New York City)
February 1966 “Read-In,” 273
April 1971 meeting, 395–96
February 1982 meeting, 429, 432–35, 437
Trilling, Diana, 40, 395–96, 489
Trilling, Lionel, 40, 203, 207, 225, 423, 424
“Trip to Hanoi,” 286, 300–305, 307, 340–41
Triumph of the Therapeutic, The (P. Rieff), 120
Triumph of the Will (film), 391–92, 393–94
Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 111
Trotsky, Leon (Trotskyism), 205, 207, 253, 434
tuberculosis, 20–21, 27, 38, 371, 374, 459, 464
Tucson, 30–31, 44–50
Turning Point, The (film), 547
Tuten, Frederic, 202, 204, 215, 257, 407
Ubu Roi (play), 566–67
Uchida, Mitsuko, 700
unconscious, 124–26, 260
Under the Glacier (Laxness), 695
Under the Sign of Saturn, 384–85, 395, 448–49
“Under the Sign of Saturn,” 381–84
“Unguided Tour,” 439–40
Unguided Tour (film), 440–42
“unhappy consciousness,” 356
United Nations, 213, 482, 573, 575
University of California, Berkeley, 492
Philip at, 168, 169
Susan at, 81–83, 86–87, 95
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 81, 211, 666–67
University of Chicago, 29, 71, 79–80, 87, 88, 93–103, 110–11, 427
University of Connecticut, 133–34
University of Massachusetts, 201–2
University of Minnesota, 202
University of Pennsylvania, 105, 106, 121, 209
University of the Witwatersrand, 680
University of Wisconsin, 112–13
Untergang, 120–21
“unthinkable,” 141, 342, 418
Updike, John, 483
uterine sarcoma, 611–12, 688
V. (Pynchon), 202
Valenzuela, Luisa, 629, 662–63, 663
Van den Brink, Marcel, 696
Vanity Fair, 471–72, 503–5
Annie’s work for, 503–5, 525–26, 530, 582–83, 622, 649–50
Varda, Agnès, 308
Vargas Llosa, Mario, 213, 430, 483
Vassar College, 73
Venice “Biennale on Dissent,” 389–90
Venice Film Festival, 312
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