I used to be on Twitter @BananaKarenina and Instagram @ebatuman, but have been offline for a while. Reviews: 28. Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010.

Elif Batuman’s provocative essay “Get a Real Degree” is up at the London Review of Books: “Despite the recent trend in viewing fiction as a form of empathy training, I’m pretty sure that writing short stories isn’t the most efficient way to combat injustice or oppression.” Elif Batuman (born 1977) is an American author, academic, and journalist.

The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Elif Batuman, a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for her debut novel, The Idiot (Penguin Press, 2017), talks to Granta about the literary model of Charles M. Schulz’s Snoopy and the blurred boundary between fiction and nonfiction. Born in New York City to Turkish parents, she grew up in New Jersey.

Elif Batuman. I am working really hard on my third book. Harman Writer-In-Residence, Spring 2015 (Photo by Carolyn Drake) Elif Batuman is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. From 2010 to 2013, she was Writer-in-Residence at Koç University in Istanbul, where she also reported for The New Yorker on various aspects of Turkish life. She is the author of a memoir, The Possessed, and a novel, The Idiot, which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ELIF BATUMAN . She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them and The Idiot.The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.

You can learn more about Elif by visiting her blog or her website .I spent the first 9 months of 2007 finishing a dissertation in comparative literature, which really cut into my reading. The Idiot is set in 1995 and is partly about not knowing how to use the internet. She has written many widely read essays and articles, including a 2018 essay on Japan's rental family industry for The New Yorker. Elif Batuman in a Stella McCartney jacket and trousers, and a Brunello Cuccinelli sweater. She graduated from Harvard College and received her doctorate in comparative literature from Stanford University, where she taught. I have a PhD in comparative (mostly Russian) literature from Stanford, where I also taught in the interdisciplinary humanities program between 2007 and 2010.

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