Episode Summary
The author's mother, Susan Sontag, died of a particularly acute form of leukemia in 2004. \"This,\" he writes, \"is a book of questions about what we know and, perhaps more importantly, what we can take in when confronted by the death of a loved one.\"
Participant(s) Bio
David Rieff is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of seven previous books, including At the Point of a Gun, the acclaimed A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis, which was named one of the 10 best nonfiction books of the year by the Los Angeles Times Book Review and a finalist for the Helen Bernstein Award, and Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West. He has written regularly for many other magazines, including the New Yorker and The New Republic. He has been a visiting professor at Bard College and a teaching fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in New York City.
Credits
ALOUD audio is presented by the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and made possible through support provided by The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, the Righteous Persons Foundation, City National Bank, K&L Gates, KPMG, Sue and David Rosenblum, Wallis Foundation, Donna and Martin J. Wolff and The Boudjakdji Foundation. Additional support provided by The Council of the Library Foundation, Library Foundation members, and the Los Angeles Public Library. Media support provided by KPPC 83.9 FM and KUSC 91.5 FM. ALOUD theme composed by Larry Karush.