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Since there seems to be a serious mood going on around here today (we promise to get back to the levity soon), here's the news you might have already seen about Susan Sontag's death.

Author and activist Susan Sontag dies in New York at 71 [NYDN]

Related: SusanSontag.com, New York Review of Books, and previous Gawker mentions