Elif Batuman | Full Stop
But literary academia is especially funny, and especially the study of the novel. You are in the world as a person but your job is studying. It is a very comic situation, but also sad. It is like the Russian novel, sad and funny at the same time.
Elif Batuman | Full Stop December 14, 2011 Elif Batuman by Helen Stuhr-Rommereim in conversation with Helen Stuhr-Rommereim There aren’t many people who straddle the worlds of academia and journalism with as much ease and good humor as Elif Batuman. A Turkish-American writer, she recently gained fame chronicling her adventures as a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Stanford University in her first book, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them . The book is a collection of essays about traveling, reading, academic conferences, relationship troubles, an
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