Conversations with Susan Sontag Book

A brilliant woman. Says so much I agree with in a way I could never say it. Says enough I disagree with to be stimulating.
Favourite part of an interview so far:

"It's not just that people want things to be easy; things that weren't so hard in the past seem more difficult today. I recently met a young woman at a major university who is writing her Ph.D on Proust. This is her sixth year as a graduate student; and she asked me, "Don't you find it hard to read Proust-all those long sentences?" And I asked, "Hard compared to what? Kurt Vonnegut? Yeah, I guess it's harder than Kurt Vonnegut." I submit that twenty years ago, no graduate student in her sixth year at a well known university would ever have been able to utter such a sentence. It wouldn't have been sayable. She would rather have gotten undressed in the middle of the street than say, shamelessly and rather wistfully, "Don't you that that Proust is kinda hard?" People don't even know what they can't say anymore...There are all sorts of changes like this, of people more and more finding things hard, of people not have the necessary energy." She said this in 1981. Fast forward 30 years and....