WRITERS ON WRITERS: DIDION, SONTAG & STEINER

EVELYN MCDONNELL has written or co-edited eight books, including Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyoncé. Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl and Queens of Noise: the Real Story of the Runaways. She has been a pop culture writer at the Miami Herald and a senior editor at The Village Voice. Her writing has appeared in various anthologies and publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Ms., and Billboard. She teaches journalism at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and lives in San Pedro, California.

ROBERT BOYERS is the author of Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner (Mandel Vilar Press). Previous books include The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy and the Hunt for Political Heresies, The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals, and a volume of short stories, Excitable Women, Damaged Men. Boyers has also authored hundreds of periodical essays and reviews in publications such as The New Republic, Dissent, Partisan Review, Harpers, Granta, and The Times Literary Supplement.  He is also the founder of Salmagundi, an international quarterly focused on politics, culture, literature, and the arts.