Speaker: Benjamin Moser, a writer, editor, critic, and translator who was born in Houston in 1976 and currently lives in the Netherlands. He is the New Books columnist for Harper's Magazine and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His work has appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, including Condé Nast Traveler, Newsweek, and The American Scholar. His first book, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, will be published in August 2009 by Oxford University Press (USA), Haus Publishing (UK), and Cosac Naify (Brazil).

Moderator: Verena Conley, Professor of Comparative Literature and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University

Brazilian Salgadinhos will be provided

Free and open to the public


This event is co-sponsored by The Brazil Studies Program at Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures