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Benjamin Moser

Author Website

  • Bio
  • Books & Translations
    • The Upside-Down World
    • Sontag: Her Life and Work
    • Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
    • The Works of Clarice Lispector in English Translation
      • Near to the Wild Heart
      • The Chandelier
      • The Besieged City
      • The Passion According to G.H.
      • Agua Viva
      • The Hour of the Star
      • A Breath of Life
      • Complete Stories
  • Selected Writings
  • Substack
  • News
  • Appearances
  • Nederlands
  • Português
    • Sontag: Vida e obra
    • Clarice, uma biografia
    • Autoimperialismo: três ensaios sobre o Brasil
  • Contact

The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

11 May 2020 By bfmoser@gmail.com

Sontag: Her Life and Work wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Biography An authoritatively constructed work told with pathos and grace, that captures the writer’s genius and humanity alongside her addictions, sexual ambiguities and volatile enthusiasms...learn more … [Read more...]

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Houston Chronicle interview with Benjamin Moser

8 October 2019 By bfmoser@gmail.com

Houston-born author Benjamin Moser dives deep into the life of ‘the coolest woman you ever met’ Benjamin Moser grew up around books. Admittedly, plenty of kids with bookish parents ensure their children are surrounded by shelves and piles of books. But Moser’s mother ran Stop, … [Read more...]

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Interview with Benjamin Moser on KHOU-11

8 October 2019 By bfmoser@gmail.com

Benjamin Moser discusses his new book about writer and activist Susan Sontag. Watch on KHOU.com … [Read more...]

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Irish Times Review

8 October 2019 By bfmoser@gmail.com

Benjamin Moser’s biography of Susan Sontag makes a strong claim to be the definitive account of the author’s life See the full review … [Read more...]

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BBC World Service | Benjamin Moser

7 October 2019 By bfmoser@gmail.com

Benjamin Moser interview BBC World Susan Sontag Biography

Susan Sontag gave us 'the key to modern culture' Through the '60s and '70s up to her death, the American writer Susan Sontag was the embodiment of the metropolitan public intellectual. Fifteen years after her death, Benjamin Moser set out to write a new biography of the … [Read more...]

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Houston-born Susan Sontag biographer looks for the full picture

7 October 2019 By bfmoser@gmail.com

Benjamin Moser lives in the Netherlands with his Dutch partner, but make no mistake: Houston is home. He grew up in West University Place, and his family’s Houston roots go back to the 19th century. When you go abroad you realize how nice it is to be rooted somewhere,” says the … [Read more...]

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Slate Review

5 October 2019 By bfmoser@gmail.com

Benjamin Moser Slate Review Susan Sontag

The Slave of Seriousness Susan Sontag and the era that made her possible. "Fifteen years after her death, it is so difficult to explain why Sontag mattered because it had less to do with what she said and wrote than with how she was in the world, or with how she appeared to … [Read more...]

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The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography

Sontag: Her Life and Work wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Biography An authoritatively constructed work told with pathos and grace, that captures the writer’s genius and humanity alongside her addictions, sexual ambiguities and volatile enthusiasms…learn more

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