Part memoir, part history, Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant explores the lives of a handful of outrageously brave men and women—saints, philosophers, artists–who have used their own wounded or stigmatized bodies to challenge society.
From the time of the Ancient Greek thinkers, to anti-Putin demonstrators, and even in the life of the author’s mother, Fernanda Eberstadt investigates how advocates have literally put their bodies on the line to further their causes.
This event will be moderated by Benjamin Moser.
About the speakers:
Fernanda Eberstadt was born in New York City. She has published five novels and one work of nonfiction, a memoir about her friendship with a family of Rom musicians in Southern France. She has written for publications including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, Vogue, and Granta, and is an editor at large for the European Review of Books.
Benjamin Moser 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, including through publishing her complete works in English, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy. For Sontag: Her Life and Work, he won the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, was published in October 2023. He lives in the Netherlands and France.
