Elif Batuman
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Elif Batuman (born 1977) is an American author, academic, and journalist. She is the author of three books: a memoir, The Possessed (2010), the novel The Idiot (2017), which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Either/Or (2022). Batuman is a staff writer for The New Yorker.
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Does It Have to Be That Way?: A Conversation with Elif Batuman by Maria Dimitrova
Elif Batuman Read Marie Kondo’s Book. Now Her Shelves Spark Joy. (Published 2022)
Elif Batuman’s Alter Ego Goes Back to College. Her Minor: Overthinking. (Published 2022)
Youth’s ecstasy and agony are Elif Batuman’s specialties. But how are the novels?
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman
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