Due to rights issues, the audio of this interview is not available online. Please contact San Diego State University, Special Collections and Archives if you wish to be granted access to the original audio. After a brief introduction stressing the importance of literature, Susan Sontag reads the entirety of her 1986 short story “The Way We Live Now”. Sontag then gives a brief description of the story of her forthcoming play Alice in Bed and after summarizing the previous scene, reads Scene 6 from the play which is entirely a dramatic monologue by Alice James, sister of Henry and William James.
