{"title":"Jonathan Cott","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Cott\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a unique window into the lives and minds of cultural icons through his intimate interviews and reflective narrative style. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eListening\u003c\/em\u003e, delve deeply into the human experience, weaving together biography and memoir with profound insights into arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful explorations of creativity and identity, presented with sensitivity and intellectual curiosity. Cott’s writing invites contemplation on the intersections of personal history and artistic expression, making his books a compelling choice for those interested in the nuances of human stories within the cultural landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"susan-sontag-by-jonathan-cott-9780300199024","title":"Susan Sontag","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A humanizing interview with the late cultural icon, who was often perceived as a fiercely aggressive and polarizing intellect.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSusan 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 \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Published more than three decades later, this book provides the entire transcript of Sontag’s remarkable conversation, accompanied by Cott’s preface and recollections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSontag’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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I really believe in history, and that’s something people don’t believe in anymore. I know that what we do and think is a historical creation... We were given a vocabulary that came into existence at a particular moment. So when I go to a Patti Smith concert, I enjoy, participate, appreciate, and am tuned in better because I’ve read Nietzsche.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“There’s no incompatibility between observing the world and being tuned into this electronic, multimedia, multi-tracked, McLuhanite world and enjoying what can be enjoyed. I love rock and roll. Rock and roll changed my life... You know, to tell you the truth, I think rock and roll is the reason I got divorced. I think it was Bill Haley and the Comets and Chuck Berry that made me decide that I had to get a divorce and leave the academic world and start a new life.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855855898860,"sku":"9780300199024","price":25.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/23987983482294.jpg?v=1759280852"},{"product_id":"listening-by-jonathan-cott-9781517907617","title":"Listening","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging collection of interviews and profiles from twenty years of Jonathan Cott's remarkable writings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"All I really need to do is simply ask a question,\" Jonathan Cott occasionally reminds himself. \"And then listen.\" It sounds simple, but in fact few have taken the art of asking questions to such heights—and depths—as Jonathan Cott, whom Jan Morris called \"an incomparable interviewer,\" one whose skill, according to the great interviewer and oral historian Studs Terkel, \"is artless yet impassioned and knowing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCollected here are twenty-two of Cott's most illuminating interviews that encourage readers to listen to film directors and musicians, actors and writers, scientists and visionaries. These conversations affirm the indispensable and transformative powers of the imagination and offer us new ways to view these lives and their worlds. What is it like to be Bob Dylan making a movie? Carl Sagan taking on the cosmos? Oliver Sacks doctoring the soul? John Lennon, on December 5, 1980? Elizabeth Taylor, ever?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Chinua Achebe to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), Federico Fellini to Werner Herzog, and Oriana Fallaci to Studs Terkel, \u003ci\u003eListening\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers on a journey to discover not ways \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e life but ways \u003ci\u003eto\u003c\/i\u003e. Cott proves himself to be, in the words of \u003ci\u003eBrain Pickings\u003c\/i\u003e's Maria Popova, \"an interlocutor extraordinaire,\" drawing candid insights and profound observations from these inspired and inspiring individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463443759340,"sku":"9781517907617","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781517907617-listening.jpg?v=1775033290"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/jonathan-cott.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}