Jonathan Cott

Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1978 Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. Only a third of their twelve hours of discussion ever made it to print. Now, more than three decades later, Yale University Press is proud to publish the entire transcript of Sontag’s remarkable conversation, accompanied by Cott’s preface and recollections. Sontag’s musings and observations reveal the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and curiosities at a moment when she was at the peak of her powers. Nearly a decade after her death, these hours of conversation offer a revelatory and indispensable look at the self-described "besotted aesthete" and "obsessed moralist." Sontag proclaims a personal credo, declaring: "Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking."

The Complete Rolling Stone Interview

Susan Sontag

Features a complete account of the author's twelve-hour interview with Bernstein one year before the classical music personality's death in 1990.

The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein

Dinner with Lenny

"Featuring luminaries such as Chinua Achebe and Lou Reed, from Bob Dylan to Dr. Seuss, from Carl Sagan to Elizabeth Taylor, the conversations in Listening brim with fun cultural trivia, astute psychological observations, and the rare candid look at larger than life personalities. This mosaic is the culmination of a life's work and will be beloved by casual and serious readers alike"--

Interviews, 1970-1989

Listening

spending time with John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Days that I'll remember

THE ESSENTIAL INTERVIEWS

BOB DYLAN

An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when Outside Over There, the concluding and by far the strangest volume of a trilogy that began with Where The Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, was gestating. Over the course of their wide-ranging and revelatory conversation about his life, work, and the fantasies and obsessions that drove his creative process, they focused on many of the themes and images that would appear in the new book five years later. Drawing on that interview,There's a Mystery There is a profound examination of the inner workings of a complicated genius's torments and inspirations that ranges over the entirety of his work and his formative life experiences, and uses Outside Over There, brilliantly and originally, as the key to understanding just what made this extravagantly talented man tick. To gain multiple perspectives on that intricate and multifaceted book, Cott also turns to four "companion guides": a Freudian analyst, a Jungian analyst, an art historian, and Sendak's great friend and admirer, the playwright Tony Kushner. The book is richly illustrated with examples from Sendak's work and other related images.

The Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak

There's a Mystery There

Das Rolling-Stone-Interview

The Doors und Dostojewski

En 1978 Jonathan Cott, editor para Europa de la revista Rolling Stone, entrevistó a Susan Sontag en dos intensas jornadas, primero en París y luego en Nueva York. El encuentro se produciría en un momento crucial de la carrera profesional de Sontag: el año anterior había publicado una de sus obras más conocidas, Sobre la fotografía, y otras dos estaban a punto de aparecer: el conjunto de relatos Yo, etcétera y el ensayo La enfermedad y sus metáforas, que escribió mientras se trataba de un cáncer. Estos tres textos son el punto de partida de una fluida y cautivadora conversación que termina abarcando los temas más dispares (los libros y la música, la guerra y el arte, la sexualidad y la muerte) y en la que Sontag despliega de forma magistral sus hondos conocimientos en filosofía, literatura, estética y feminismo.

El presente volumen recoge la transcripción completa de esta entrevista que duró más de doce horas, y que al final atraviesa el umbral de su género para convertirse en un documento sumamente valioso: una suerte de autobiografía intelectual que pasa a engrosar el legado de una de las mentes más brillantes, poderosas y certeras del siglo XX.

La entrevista completa de Rolling Stone

Mysl to forma odczuwania

The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn

Wandering Ghost

سوزان سونتاگ

Cuentos de hadas victorianos

Christine Doudna

A tribute to John Lennon and Yoko Ono examines their impact on world music, politics, culture, and society from their first meeting in 1967 to John Lennon's tragic death in 1980

The Ballad of John and Yoko

Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features over two dozen of the most significant and revealing conversations with the singer, gathered in one definitive collection that spans his career from street poet to Nobel Laureate. First published in 2006, this acclaimed collection brought together the best interviews and encounters with Bob Dylan to create a multi-faceted, cultural, and journalistic portrait of the artist and his legacy. This edition includes three additional pieces from Rolling Stone that update the volume to the present day. Among the highlights are the seminal Rolling Stone interviews--anthologized here for the first time--by Jann Wenner, Jonathan Cott, Kurt Loder, Mikal Gilmore, Douglas Brinkley, and Jonathan Lethem--as well as Nat Hentoff's legendary 1966 Playboy interview. Surprises include Studs Terkel's radio interview in 1963 on WFMT in Chicago, the interview Dylan gave to screenwriter Jay Cocks when he was a student at Kenyon College in 1964, a 1965 interview with director Nora Ephron, and an interview Sam Shepard turned into a one-act play for Esquire in 1987.

The Essential Interviews

Bob Dylan

Francelia Butler

Masterworks of Children's Literature: 1837-1900, the Victorian Age

Robert Lee Wolff

Robert Bator

William T. Moynihan

Mary E. Shaner

Masterworks of Children's Literature

Visions and Voices

'One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment ...and I don't believe it's true...I have the impression that thinking is a form of feeling and that feeling is a form of thinking.' Susan Sontag, one of the most internationally renowned and controversial intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, still provokes. In 1978 Jonathan Cott, a founding contributing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, interviewed Sontag first in Paris and later in New York. Only a third of their twelve hours of discussion ever made it to print. Now, more than three decades later, Yale University Press is proud to publish the entire transcript of Sontag's remarkable conversation, accompanied by Cott's preface and recollections. Sontag's musings and observations reveal the passionate engagement and breadth of her critical intelligence and curiosities at a moment when she was at the peak of her powers. Nearly a decade after her death, these hours of conversation offer a revelatory and indispensable look at the self-described 'besotted aesthete' and 'obsessed moralist'.

Susan Sontag foi escritora, crítica de arte e ativista dos direitos humanos. Em 1978, Jonathan Cott, um dos fundadores da revista Rolling Stone, entrevistou Sontag pela primeira vez em Paris e, posteriormente, em Nova York. Apenas um terço de sua conversa de doze horas foi reproduzido na edição de 4 de outubro de 1979 da Rolling Stone. Mais de três décadas depois, a prestigiosa editora de Yale publica a transcrição completa dessa entrevista memorável, agora traduzida pela Autêntica, acompanhada de um prefácio e das lembranças desse encontro. Aqui estão reunidas sua visão de mundo, sua trajetória, seus embates pela liberdade de expressão, comentando, a fundo, suas obras que influenciaram várias gerações. Instigantes, as perguntas de Jonathan Cott provocaram respostas reveladoras, e o resultado fornece um olhar indispensável àquela que se descrevia como "esteta inebriada" e "moralista obsessiva".

Entrevista completa para a revista Rolling Stone

The story of one woman's search for the previous life she led in ancient Egypt, written by a Rolling Stone and New Yorker journalist.

Jonathan Cott

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