Novelist, essayist and driving intellectual force, Susan Sontag, died late last year. In her memory, we offer this conversation, first broadcast in October 1992. On this first visit to Bookworm, she spoke with great enthusiasm about her novel, The Volcano Lover and how she came to write -- of all things -- a romance.
Susan Sontag
The Volcano Lover
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