"...she looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf."

Yesterday, the Museum book club met to discuss The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie society. Unanimously recommended, TGLAPPPS explored the joy of reading and discovering new books. Thanks to the Museum, I have made my own recent literary discovery.

Clarice Lispector, a Ukrainian-born Jew who escaped her homeland with her family as a baby, is a legendary figure in Brazil, renowned for her unique writing style, her beauty, and peculiarity. Though she is considered the second most prolific national author of the 20^th century in Brazil, she is largely unknown to English-speaking readers. Author Benjamin Moser will discuss his intriguing biography, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, on Sunday, November 8 at 2:30 p.m. Vox Tablet, Tablet Magazine’s weekly online audio report, recently spoke with Moser. You can listen to the interview here.

Many of Lispector’s works have been translated into English, so I’m excited to check some of them out of my local library.  Maybe one will be a good book club recommendation…