and sontag showed how metaphor form and form itself . how language could console and how it could destroy. the representation could, further while also being, white wild even a great interpreter at the end against interpretation and she warned against the mystification of photographs and portraits including those of biographers. which is a really very nice sort of wonderful thing to extend some limits of biography and sort of opens the door. so with that lovely last paragraph , let me just open, there may be some other people besides me one asked russians . [applause] >>. [inaudible]. >> the question is if sontag could read your book, what would she have to say -mark- tell you that i don't know. when it was definitely something i thought about what four hours a day when i was writing. i wanted her to feel fairly treated. i wanted her to feel a certain sense understood. i wanted to argue with her but i wanted her to be enjoying the conversation because she was a great polemicist is a great talker. a great arguer. i hope that she would fee

>> that's a fantastic question that interests me deeply, sontag's great theme the difference between photograph and metaphor and the person behind it, what people think about you and what you give off, who you actually are and what sontag she writes, it's not camp is not a woman but a woman in clothes and i wrote a lot about the difference between susan sontag or sue as she calls herself, the little girl, susan sontag read every book and went to every opera and the appearance of sontag is a story of its own, one thing that i'm proud of which sounds cheesy and i can make it fancier, it was really fun as biographer is that i found the guy in hon -- honol. >> i thought it was natural. >> it was created in honolulu. >> yeah. >> wow. >> yeah, her mother who is this like fancy jewish lady with jewelry, lipstick, looked perfect all of the time, her best friend was her hair dress. [laughter] >> i talk about him in the piece in the times and he was excited about it. her hair went white when she had chemo in 1975, she didn't lose her hair but lost the color in her hair and she -- she went to v

and his cousin back there when we saw ms sontag for the 1st time she was incapable of physical activity so we set out to adjust her medicine tailoring it more to her needs we also got her back up and more active she started exercising 1st going for walks then bike rides that all helped improve her symptoms. last month can't be cured but new medications have made the symptoms more treatable and thanks in part to her daily exercise regime who hasn't had any major episodes lately. therefore the exercise has definitely helped how often do you need the inhaler now yeah after the media i must only be for exercise exercising with as much david has been doing it for years whether durance training or out on the dance floor the sports student enjoys working up a sweat. but that hasn't always been the case david has had asked most since childhood physical education classes at school were hard on him. after the teacher would sometimes just throw a ball into the middle of the room and all the other kids would run after it and they were able to even though they had more and got them. i often had to s

i just wasn't there at the end when we saw ms sontag for the 1st time she was incapable of physical activity so we set out to adjust her medicine tailoring it more to her needs we also got her back up and more active she started exercising 1st going for walks then bike rides that all helped improve her symptoms. last more can't be cured.

to huge influences that also show up susan sontag and james agee 1936 book and largely an account ofthe lives and labor during the great depression but what made that revolutionary that as they are at documenting his lives they are constantly preoccupied by the convoluted dynamics by the power dynamics to be harvard educated and what does that mean to be in the same room? as their backgrounds and select every moment and very fundamental level railing against the fact the matter how much he writes about them it will never be enough. there will always be more of them. >> he is also worried about exploiting them and romanticizing them. he wants his cake and eat it too or his poetry and eat it too. and then to romanticize poverty so that was a lyric poem. so doesn't know quite where to land to toppling between these and that's what i appreciate about sontag as well and to be strident so to have those earlier positions with intellect as well so as a writer or reporter journalist is there is a famous line i have to claim that the journalist to prey on people's vanity or loneliness with tha

as if it wasn't at the end when we saw ms sontag for the 1st time she was incapable of physical activity so we set out to adjust her medicine tailoring it more to her needs we also got her back up and more active she started exercising 1st going for walks then bike rides that all helped improve her symptoms. last more can't be cured but new medications have made the symptoms more treatable. and thanks in part to her daily exercise regime hasn't had any major episodes lately. therefore i think the exercise has definitely helped how often do you need the inhaler now that after i must only be for exercise exercising with asthma david amon has been doing it for years whether during training or out on the dance floor or sports student enjoys working up a sweat. but that hasn't always been the case david has had asked most in stride good physical education classes at school were hard on him. after the teacher would sometimes just throw a ball into the middle of the room and all the other kids would run after it and they were able to even though they had more and got them. i often had to stop s

to huge influences that also show up susan sontag and james agee 1936 book and largely an account ofduring the great depression but what made that revolutionary that as they are at documenting his lives they are constantly preoccupied by the convoluted dynamics by the power dynamics to be harvard educated and what does that mean to be in the same room? as their backgrounds and select every moment and very fundamental level railing against the fact the matter how much he writes about them it will never be enough. there will always be more of them. >> he is also worried about exploiting them and romanticizing them. he wants his cake and eat it too or his poetry and eat it too. and then to romanticize poverty so that was a lyric poem. so doesn't know quite where to land to toppling between these and that's what i appreciate about sontag as well and to be strident so to have those earlier positions with intellect as well so as a writer or reporter journalist is there is a famous line i have to claim that the journalist to prey on people's vanity or loneliness with that trust without remo

what we should be taking credit for, that's the killing of american citizens, james foley, stephen sontag. it points to me, andrea, and you know i'm supporting vice president biden, the difference between these two men, vice president biden so confident, so professional about defense of the united states, and the national security policy. president trump has weakened us on the global stage and certainly has weakened us by withdrawing u.s. special forces from syria and given a victory to the russians, the turks, and the assad government in the process. >> nick, as well, i don't know if you know alexander vindman, this national security council official, had been the attache working in the moscow embassy. how difficult a position is this for an ongoing military aide in the nsc, to be giving such explicit testimony undercutting the president's position today? >> this was a powerful moment, andrea. and i think you have to think that the floodgates have opened here. it began with ambassador masha yovanovitch and her incredible courage, mike mckinley, george taylor, the diplomats who answered t