Sempre Susan

In this poignant, intimate memoir, Nunez, a novelist who lived with Susan Sontag's son for several years in the 1970s, speaks of her gratitude for having had, as an early model, "someone who held such an exalted, unironic view of the writer's vocation." Published more than six years after Sontag's death, "Sempre Susan" is a startlingly truthful portrait of this outsized personality, who made being an intellectual a glamorous occupation.