Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector November 8, 2009

Author Benjamin Moser interviewed by Gabriel Sanders, deputy editor, Tablet Magazine. Moser will discuss his complex and intriguing biography of Clarice Lispector, a Jewish writer whose family escaped the pogroms in Ukraine to settle in Brazil in 1921. The book, which examines the reclusive author’s traumatic family history and astonishing work, will help Lispector gain her rightful place in the 20th century literary canon. Tickets are available online at www.mjhnyc.org or by calling the museum box office at .