Susan Sontag (1933–2004) was one of America’s first celebrity intellectuals. In the first biography to be published since her death, Daniel Schreiber portrays a glamorous woman full of contradictions and inner conflicts, whose life mirrored the cultural upheavals of her time. While known primarily as a cultural critic and novelist, Sontag was also a filmmaker, stage director, and dramatist. It was her status as a pop icon that was unusual for an American intellectual: she was filmed by Andy Warhol and Woody Allen, photographed by Annie Leibovitz and Diane Arbus, and her likeness adorned advertisements for Absolut vodka. Drawing on newly available sources, including interviews with Nadine Gordimer, Robert Wilson, and Sontag’s son, David Rieff, as well as on myriad interviews given by Sontag and her extensive correspondence with her friend and publisher Roger Straus, Schreiber explores the roles that Sontag played in influencing American public cultural and political conversations.

Susan Sontag: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Schreiber, Daniel

Arts & Literature

Northwestern University Press

A book for our times: a moving meditation on the tension between loneliness and freedom, individualism and love.\nAt no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And can we ever be happy on our own? Drawing on personal experience, as well as philosophy and sociology, Daniel Schreiber explores the tension between the desire for solitude and freedom, and the desire for companionship, intimacy, and love. Along the way he illuminates the role that friendships play in our lives—can they be a response to the loss of meaning in a world in crisis? A profoundly enlightening book on how we want to live, Alone spent almost a year on Germany’s bestseller list.

Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Reaktion Books

Zuhause: Die Suche nach dem Ort, an dem wir leben wollen

Hanser Berlin

Wo gehören wir hin? Was ist unser Zuhause in einer Zeit, in der sich immer weniger Menschen sinnstiftend dem Ort verbunden fühlen, an dem sie geboren wurden? In seinem persönlichen Essay beschreibt Daniel Schreiber den Umschwung eines kollektiven Gefühls: Zuhause ist nichts Gegebenes mehr, sondern ein Ort, nach dem wir uns sehnen, zu dem wir suchend aufbrechen. Schreiber blickt auf Philosophie, Soziologie und Psychoanalyse, und zugleich erzählt er seine eigene Geschichte: von Vorfahren, die ihr Leben auf der Flucht verbrachten. Von der Kindheit eines schwulen Jungen in einem mecklenburgischen Dorf. Von der Suche nach dem Platz, an dem wir bleiben können.

Suhrkamp Verlag AG

Like his fellow Pop painters Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Mel Ramos (born 1935) derives the motifs for his work from mass media and advertising. In bold and immediately recognizable canvases, he unites consumer goods with idealized pin-up girls modeled after magazine images dating from the 1950s and 1960s. Ramos immortalizes these models' lascivious poses by entwining them with the featured products in what he calls "commercial pin-ups." This monograph illustrates and discusses many of these works, but also provides insight into the artist's multifaceted oeuvre by presenting more than 100 works, from his first portraits of people, comic heroes and heroines, and his prominent pin-up girls, to his latest works from the Galatea series. Celebrating the artist's 75th birthday, this catalogue accompanies a major European retrospective, the first to unite Ramos' drawings, paintings and sculptures.

Mel Ramos: 50 Years of Pop Art

HONNEF, KLAUS

Letze, Otto

Reference

Hatje Cantz

Andreas Schulze: On Stage: Cat. Kunsthalle Nuremberg

Arts & Photography

Schulze, Andreas

Zilch PhD, Harriet

Petalas, Alex

Individual Artists

Snoeck Publishing Company

Un libro que nos hará ver con nuevos ojos nuestra relación con la bebida 
«Mi vida, es evidente, estaba absolutamente condicionada por el alcohol. Todo lo demás quedaba en un segundo plano, aunque jamás lo habría admitido. Jamás se me habría ocurrido pensar que tenía un problema con la bebida.» Durante mucho tiempo y de forma discreta, el alcohol fue un elemento omnipresente en la vida del escritor Daniel Schreiber. Este libro cuenta una historia de amor: una dependencia y una ruptura; es la historia de una persona a la que, como a tantas otras, nadie consideraba alcohólica. 
¿Qué pasa cuando un vaso diario de vino se convierte en una botella o en botella y media? ¿Cómo no beber en una sociedad en la que hacerlo es visto como lo más normal o conveniente pero que estigmatiza a quien no quiere hacerlo? 
Con inusitada valentía y destreza narrativa, Schreiber construye un relato que es a la vez un testimonio, una exploración científica y una reflexión sobre este paradójico problema de nuestra sociedad que es el alcoholismo. Un libro que sin duda nos hará ver con nuevos ojos nuestra relación con la bebida. 
«Un ensayo potente y honesto. (...) Se lee con entusiasmo y con la impresión de penetrar en un terreno que estaba a oscuras hasta ahora. No es en absoluto, o no solamente, un libro para bebedores. Aborda un tema delicado en la historia cultural de nuestro tiempo: la dialéctica de la dependencia.» Ursula März (Die Zeit) 
«Todo un acierto. Cuenta una historia de amor no correspondido. A muchos lectores les resonará.» Tobias Rapp (Der Spiegel) 
«Lo que aflora en este ensayo es el dolor de una lucha diaria, de cada minuto en que uno teme volver a caer.» Livres Hebdo

La última copa

Libros del Asteroide

SUSAN SONTAG INTELECTUALIDAD Y GLAMOUR. UNA BIOGRAFÍA

Community & Culture

TAJAMAR

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Schreiber, Daniel. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Schreiber, Daniel