Where the Stress Falls
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Where the Stress Falls, published in 2001, is the last collection of essays published by Susan Sontag before her death in 2004. The essays vary between her experiences in the theater to book reviews.
Cover of the first edition
William Deresiewicz
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William Deresiewicz is an American author, essayist, and literary critic, who taught English at Yale University from 1998 to 2008. He is the author of A Jane Austen Education, Excellent Sheep, The Dea
Where the Stress Falls
…of the aesthetic impulse and by her passion for ideas, culture and especially for writing." Conversely, the collection was heavily criticized by William Deresiewicz of The New York Times, who opined, "While Where the Stress Falls won't do much to enhance her stature as a thinker, never before has she made such large…
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