"Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome Howard Eiland, lecturer for literature at MIT, for a discussion of his book Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, co-authored with Michael W. Jennings. Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings make available for the first time a rich store of information which augments and corrects the record of an extraordinary life. They offer a comprehensive portrait of Benjamin and his times as well as extensive commentaries on his major works, including ""The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,"" the essays on Baudelaire, and the great study of the German Trauerspiel. "