{"product_id":"where-the-stress-falls-essays-9780312421311","title":"Where the Stress Falls: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eThirty-five years after her first collection, the now classic \u003ci\u003eAgainst Interpretation, \u003c\/i\u003e America's most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last twenty years. Divided into three sections, the first \"Reading\" includes ardent pieces on writers from her own private canon - Machado de Assis, Barthes, W. G. Sebald, Borges, Tsvetaeva, and Elizabeth Hardwick. In the second, \"Seeing\" she shares her passions for film, dance, photography, painting, opera, and theater. And in the final section, \"There and Here\" Sontag explores her own commitments to the work (and activism) of conscience and to the vocation of the writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Sontag\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four novels, including \u003ci\u003eIn America\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2000 National Book Award for Fiction; a collection of stories; several plays, and five works of nonfiction, among them \u003ci\u003eAgainst Interpretation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn Photography.\u003c\/i\u003e Her latest book is \u003ci\u003eRegarding the Pain of Othe\u003c\/i\u003ers. Her books have been translated into 28 languages. In 2001, she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410252042514,"sku":"9780312421311","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ca25a233-6d36-4b64-91b1-ad5e9dbce77a.jpg?v=1729303351","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/where-the-stress-falls-essays-9780312421311","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}