Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is a story of January 16th.
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It is the 16th day of the year, leaving 349 days remaining in 2023.
She told her stories mostly in essays, critiquing political and cultural issues in wide-ranging, insightful writing in influential magazines that brought her acclaim. She often melded "high" and "low" culture, noting that both are needed for art to survive.
One of her first essays, Notes on "Camp," published in Partisan Review in 1964, was on this topic. It discussed, as a serious philosophical issue, the culture of art within the gay community. It later was published in her first collection, Against Interpretation.
Born in New York and reared in Long Island, Tucson, Ariz., and the Los Angeles area, she attended Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and Harvard, obtaining degrees in literature and philosophy from the latter two. She began her career teaching at various colleges, including Sarah Lawrence College and Rutgers and Columbia University.
Then she became a full-time author, writing novels and criticism.
While she mainly considered herself a novelist and fiction writer, it was her criticism and other essays on topics such as war, human rights, and AIDS, along with photography and the media. In addition to Partisan Review, she was published in The New York Review of Books and Commentary.
She won dozens of awards for her work, including a MacArthur award, a National Book Award, a George Polk Award, and the Jerusalem Prize. In their digital archives of her writings, The New York Review of Books calls her "one of the most influential critics of her generation."
She died in 2004.
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