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Feminist Author Sontag Discusses New Novel About Immigrant Life

The freedom of fiction, she said, allows the writer to contradict herself. Sontag said she often changes her mind about something she has written almost as soon as she has written it. Fiction, Sontag said, allows for her to be flexible in her writing.

This flexibility prompted Sontag to recall a quote by one of her favorite authors, Henry James.

"Nothing is my last word on anything," she said, quoting.

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