The candid and far-reaching interview with the public intellectual and author of Illness as Metaphor, conducted in 1978 Paris and New York.Over the summer and fall of 1978, Susan Sontag engaged in a series of deeply stimulating, provocative and intimate conversations with Jonathan Cott of Rolling Stone magazine. While the printed interview was extensive, it covered only a third of their twelve hours of discussion. Now, for the first time, the entir...

An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period.Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when Outside Over There, the concluding and by far the strangest v...

The conception, creation, recording, and significance of the Beatles’ “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever”John Lennon wrote “Strawberry Fields Forever” in Almería, Spain, in fall 1966, and in November, in response to that song, Paul McCartney wrote “Penny Lane” at his home in London. A culmination of what was one of the most life-altering and chaotic years in the Beatles’ career, these two songs composed the 1967 double A-side 45 rpm record that has often b...

Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and was friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the small group of writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book recounts the course of those friendships over the decades and provides an intimate look at two of the most astonishing cultural figures of our time. And what Jonathan Cott has to say and tell will be found ...

Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality of the twentieth century. Conductor, composer, pianist, writer, educator, and human rights activist, Bernstein truly led a life of Byronic intensity--passionate, risk-taking, and convention-breaking. In November 1989, just a year before his death, Bernstein invited writer Jonathan Cott to his country home in Fairfield, Connecticut for what turned out to be his last maj...

A wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott’s remarkable writings“All I really need to do is simply ask a question,” Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds himself. “And then listen.” It sounds simple, but in fact few have taken the art of asking questions to such heights—and depths—as Jonathan Cott, whom Jan Morris called “an incomparable interviewer,” one whose skill, according to the great interviewer and oral historian St...

Offering new insight into Lennon and Ono as individuals, artists and lovers, Days That I’ll Remember is a gifted music journalist’s memoir of a seismic time in music, politics and culture and one of the most incisive and affectionate portraits ever written about this world-altering couple.In this rich account of their relationship, Cott tells his own story alongside his many interviews with the couple. While most originally appeared in Rolling Stone, they usually did so in...

Jonathan Cott met John Lennon in 1968 and remained friends with him and Yoko Ono until John's death in 1980. He has kept in touch with Yoko since that time, and is one of the few writers who understands her profoundly positive influence on Lennon. This deeply personal book recounts the course of these friendships over the decades and provides an intimate look at two of the most astonishing cultural figures of our time. And what Jonathan Cott has to say will be found nowhere else.

Uma das intelectuais mais influentes do século XX, Susan Sontag costumava dizer que adorava o formato de entrevista: "É como uma conversa. Gosto de dialogar e sei que muito do que penso é resultado de conversas." A observação explica porque o encontro com o jornalista Jonathan Cott, em 1978, resultou em um documento privilegiado para conhecer o seu pensamento e também a sua biografia. Na época, apenas um terço do material registrado em cerca de doze horas de conversa – realizada primeirame...

Susan Sontag und Jonathan Cott treffen sich 1978 zum Interview. Erst in Sontags Pariser Wohnung, dann in ihrem Loft in New York. Entstanden ist ein vielseitiges Porträt, das Susan Sontag als große und sehr agile Denkerin zeigt, vor der kaum ein Thema sicher war - Feminismus, Faschismus, Ästhetik, Ideo- logie, Chuck Berry oder Friedrich Nietzsche - und die sich keinen Deut um die Trennung von Hoch- und Popkultur scherte: »Rock 'n' Roll hat mein Leben verändert.« Auch in ihr Privatleben gewä...

En 1978, Susan Sontag, est l’intellectuelle la plus en vogue des États-Unis. Elle vient notamment de faire paraître deux essais-phares de la révolution culturelle américaine : Sur la photographie et La Maladie comme métaphore. L’entretien qu’elle donne alors à Jonathan Cott pour le magazine Rolling Stone, inédit en français à ce jour, livre un autoportrait saisissant d’une femme à la stature exceptionnelle. Sontag y parle d’elle, des épreuves personnelles qu’elle traverse, de ses écrits et...