Postponed: Note/Books: La Hora de la Estrella (The Hour of the Star)

In Conversation

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  Suzanne Farrin

  Suzanne Farrin

  Suzanne Farrin is a composer whose works for stage and film have been performed in Europe, the Americas and Asia. She is currently the Frayda B. Lindemann Professor and Chair of Music at Hunter College and The C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center, where she teaches composition. Corpo di Terra, a CD devoted entirely to her work, was described in Timeout Chicago as “like field recordings from inside the cerebral cortex.” Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times called her first opera, dolce la morte, a work of “shattering honesty.” She was a 2018 Rome Prize Winner and a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow in Composition.

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  Benjamin Moser

  Benjamin Moser

  Benjamin Moser was born in Houston. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of 2009. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, and his latest book, Sontag: Her Life and Work, won the Pulitzer Prize.

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  Paolo Fasoli

  Paolo Fasoli

  Paolo Fasoli is Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is currently (till the end of this semester and non plus ultra) the Chairperson of the Department of Romance Languages and the Coordinator of the Comparative Literature Program at Hunter College. He has published on Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque literature. He has written on Giovan Ambrosio Marini and the Baroque novel, Gabriello Chiabrera and the Baroque lyric poetry, and on early Libertine authors such as Ferrante Pallavicino and Antonio Rocco. With Andrea Fedi (SUNY-Stony Brook), he is the author of Mercurio (Yale UP, 2005). He is now editing the English translation of La retorica delle puttane by Ferrante Pallavicino, to be published by The University of Toronto Press, and writing a monographic book on the same author.