The big guns, Vanity Fair's Christoper Hitchens in Slate and Charles McGrath for the New York Times, come out and write tribute pieces for Susan Sontag that describe a rare life and body of work that was capable of influencing a range of people and subjects few will ever see again. Perhaps it wasn't their place to mention it, but surely her longtime companionship with photographer Annie Leibovitz would turn up in the NYT's proper obituary. Instead, there's only the odd mention of Susan being photographed by Annie for an Absolut Vodka ad, which we're not sure is a euphemism for something. Well, at least the New York Daily News doesn't shy away from the fact.

Susan Sontag Tributes and Obituaries by:
Christoper Hitchens [Slate]
Charles McGrath [NYTimes]
Margalit Fox [NYTimes]
Sherryl Connelly [NYDN]

UPDATE: Sontag's lesbianism [MemeFirst]

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