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Advice I Got From Elif Batuman, My New Favorite Person - E.B. Bartels

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First, a confession: I never finished reading Elif Batuman’s essay collection, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The book came out my senior year of undergrad, when I was already drowning in Russian literature […]

09 February Advice I Got From Elif Batuman, My New Favorite Person Authors , Nonfiction Mafia First, a confession: I never finished reading Elif Batuman’s essay collection, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The book came out my senior year of undergrad, when I was already drowning in Russian literature as a Russian language and literature major. I started it, I chuckled, I thought this is a book to which I am definitely going to relate , and then put it down. It felt sort of like reading about a war while you’re already in the trenches fighting one. How

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