{"product_id":"9781466812017","title":"Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating experience—does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful—I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly...everything matters!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo wrote Susan Sontag in May 1949 at the age of sixteen. This, the first of three volumes of her journals and notebooks, presents a constantly and utterly surprising record of a great mind in incubation. It begins with journal entries and early attempts at fiction from her years as a university and graduate student, and ends in 1964, when she was becoming a participant in and observer of the artistic and intellectual life of New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReborn \u003c\/i\u003eis a kaleidoscopic self-portrait of one of America's greatest writers and intellectuals, teeming with Sontag's voracious curiosity and appetite for life. We watch the young Sontag's complex self-awareness, share in her encounters with the writers who informed her thinking, and engage with the profound challenge of writing itself—all filtered through the inimitable detail of everyday circumstance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47144220688624,"sku":"9781466812017","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466812017_p0.jpg?v=1763685312","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466812017","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}