Among the various ways in which one gets introduced to a book, the best is to be the blessed fool who picks the volume at random from a library shelf

Joseph O'Neill on John Updike:

It is not an overstatement to say that this bereavement [Updike] is, for writers and countless readers, of a paternal magnitude

Unrelated to the above (or is it?): The Susan Sontag page with links to many of her works and its commentary