Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky in 8 rounds

Marcia Miner at 11:23 am on April 27, 2012

I covered Susan Sontag who gave a public lecture in 2000 at Fairfield University. She recalled the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky asking her who she thought the better writer, to which she asked, “Must I pick one?” He then said, “Susan, Susan, Susan, from Dostoyevsky comes Kafka, from Tolstoy comes Margaret Mitchell.”