Writers Off the Page: Susan Sontag - Part Two: “The Little Illness Book”

Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA

Books by Susan Sontag

The Benefactor

Illness as Metaphor/AIDS and Its Metaphors

From America

Books about Susan Sontag

Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser

Other Books or Materials Mentioned

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Film: David Lean’s 1946 version of Great Expectations (Criterion Collection)

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

About the Host:

Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original Prin, Beggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.

Music is by Yuka.

This podcast series is produced by Toronto Public Library, in collaboration with TIFA (Toronto International Festival of Authors) and Library and Archives Canada.