Michelle Malkin: HOW TO WRITE A SUSAN SONTAG OBITUARY

Finally.
When I read all the glowing stories of Susan Sontag, I found myself wondering “who was this person? Frankly, I’ve not paid much attention to radical writers of any school, but I really didn’t catch why this person deserved the attention fed into her eulogy. I had all but forgotten about it entirely, until I came across this while catching up with Michelle M’s weblog. I entertained myself for several minutes following such juicy searches as this.

Washington Times editor Stacy McCain sends along his newspaper’s Susan Sontag obit, which begins:

Novelist, radical Susan Sontag, 71, dies in New York

From combined dispatches

Susan Sontag, a critic, novelist and essayist who blamed America for the September 11 terror attacks and once declared that “the white race is the cancer of human history,” died in New York yesterday at age 71.