the great critic dave hickey on the great critic susan sontag.
It is for any critic. We are all predisposed to bouts of pathological connoisseurship. We are always falling in love. That’s why we’re critics. The idiomatic admission that one is “blown away” by something captures it perfectly. Sontag could be blown away. She was wired for art, and her journal is filled with moments when she declares herself ravished by great books, music, film, and theater….
– Dave Hickey, “Una Lesbiana Enamorada!,” Harper’s Magazine, December 2009, p. 95.
