Elif Batuman
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The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
— published 2010 — 13 editions |
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n+1 Issue 9: Bad Money
by n+1, Juan Villoro, Sam Lipsyte (Goodreads Author) — published 2010 — 3 editions |
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n+1, Number Four: Reconstruction
by n+1, Stephen Burt (Goodreads Author), Elif Batuman — published 2006 — 2 editions |
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n+1 Issue 2: Happiness
by n+1, Daniel Smith, Keith Gessen — published 2005 — 3 editions |
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n+1 Issue 7: Correction
by Frederick Seidel, Ceridwen Dovey, Thomas Bernhard — published 2008 — 3 editions |
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“I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.”
― Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
― Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
“A few times I saw a chicken walking around importantly, like some kind of a regional manager.”
― Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
― Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
“Persian, Dilorom told me, had only one word for crying, whereas Old Uzbek had one hundred. Old Uzbek had words for wanting to cry and not being able to, for being caused to sob by something, for loudly crying like thunder in the clouds, for crying in gasps, for weeping inwardly or secretly, for crying ceaselessly in a high voice, for crying in hiccups, and for crying while uttering the sound 'hay hay.”
― Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
― Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The Seasonal Read...: Spring Challenge 2011 Completed Tasks (DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS) | 2898 | 796 | May 31, 2011 09:01pm | |
| Listomania: Russian Book recommendations by Elif Batuman | 1 | 21 | Jul 03, 2011 12:01pm | |
| The History Book ...: JUDY TANGUAY'S 50 BOOKS READ IN 2012 | 39 | 96 | Dec 18, 2012 11:36am | |
| The Imprinted Lif...: hello, bonjour, 你好, здравствуйте!, hallo, γειά σου, ciao, こんにちは, 여보세요, olá!, hola,... | 185 | 49 | Jan 09, 2013 05:57pm | |
| The Imprinted Lif...: Elif's fascination with Russian literature | 11 | 9 | Apr 26, 2013 05:58pm | |
| Around the World ...: Russia | 12 | 138 | May 04, 2013 07:01pm |
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