Susan Sontag At Fairfield University

FAIRFIELD — Leading American writer, feminist, and activist Susan Sontag will share her views and discuss her new book, In America, at Fairfield University’s next Open Visions Forum on Wednesday, October 4, at 7:30 pm, in the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. Ms Sontag’s topic is “A Writer’s Responsibility: Fiction and History.”

One of America’s best known and most admired authors, Ms Sontag was called by The New Republic “a writer from whom it is continually possible to learn.” In addition to her recently released In America, she has penned three other novels, a collection of stories, and six collections of essays.

Ms Sontag has also written and directed four feature-length films and directed plays here and in Europe, including Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo in 1993.

“Politics and the Arts” is Ms Sontag’s analysis of the cultural and ethical situation at the beginning of the 21st century when so many features of the private and the political have been radically transformed by the values and the practices of the consumer society. She has been a human rights activist for more than two decades. An early and outspoken critic of the international community’s failure to halt the genocide in Bosnia, Ms Sontag spent much time in besieged Sarajevo from 1993 through 1996.

The Open Visions Forum is a public program of Fairfield University’s School of Continuing Education. Tickets for the lecture are $15 and $12 for seniors. For tickets or information call the Quick Center box office at 203/254-4010 or toll-free at 877/ARTS-396.