Elif Batuman
Brookline Booksmith, Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 7pm
Elif Batuman reads from The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them.
Follow Stanford professor Elif Batuman as she visits Tolstoy's estate to investigate a possible murder and loses Isaac Babel's family at the airport. Batuman (Harper’s, The New Yorker, LRB and n+1) has literally walked a mile in the footsteps of her heroes in a sharp, funny, personal literary history that takes us from California to the Caucasus. (lemontwist)… (more)
Follow Stanford professor Elif Batuman as she visits Tolstoy's estate to investigate a possible murder and loses Isaac Babel's family at the airport. Batuman (Harper’s, The New Yorker, LRB and n+1) has literally walked a mile in the footsteps of her heroes in a sharp, funny, personal literary history that takes us from California to the Caucasus. (lemontwist)… (more)
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