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...]

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...]

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

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...]

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...]

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...]

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...]