Being Sontag’s Assistant

Michael Berger bio ↓  ·  February 1st, 2011  ·  filed under books

“Then the book was fin­ished, or at least a com­pleted man­u­script was turned in—as I was to learn, for Susan, the book is never fin­ished. We spent a week holed up in her apart­ment comb­ing through the gal­leys and then another with the page proofs, tweak­ing and mas­sag­ing the text.

When I say ‘holed up,’ I mean that I didn’t leave her apart­ment for a week. Susan said we’d ‘taken to the mat­tresses, like the Mafia.’”

Via Bookforum: Karla Eoff reminisces about the “intense, rollercoaster years” she spent as Susan Sontag’s personal assistant.

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Michael Berger is a San Francisco-based writer, blogger and fiction editor for www.splintergeneration.com. A former civil rights law clerk, he now works at a bookstore, volunteers at Alemany Farm and is working on various unfinished novels about love and the apocalypse. More from this author →

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