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About Elif Batuman
American author, academic, and journalist
Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. She writes fiction and nonfiction, and is known for The Possessed, The Idiot, and Either/Or. Her work spans memoir, the novel, and magazine journalism. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and her books include The Possessed (2010), The Idiot (2017), a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Either/Or (2022).
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Explore Loneliness
- “Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand,…”Elisabeth Elliot
- “If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to kn…”Mandy Hale
- “Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.”Scott Westerfeld
Music: more sayings
- “The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God.…”Andris Nelsons
- “After everyone's gone to bed, I still find myself sitting at the computer writing songs. It's a nice reminder…”Dan Smith
- “I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.”Moby
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Books by Elif Batuman
The Idiot
2017
The Possessed
2010