Oxford UP Goes All Out as Harper’s Book Man Brings Clarice Lispector to the U.S.

“When I met Ben many, many years ago, the first thing he told me was about Clarice,” said Dutch novelist Arthur Japin. “I don’t know if it was our first date, but it might have been.”

Mr. Japin was talking about his partner Benjamin Moser, the “New Books” columnist for Harper’s and the author of Why This World, a new biography of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector. The publication of Mr. Moser’s book was celebrated last night in the grand lobby of Oxford University Press on Madison Ave. at 34th Street, in the form of a party co-hosted by Oxford and the Brazilian consulate that improbably drew a crowd of around 200 people. More>