Comments on: Bananagarden http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/04/01/bananagarden/ "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness." George Orwell Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:08:38 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Tara from Columbia http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/04/01/bananagarden/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Tara from Columbia Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:00:37 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/04/01/bananagarden/#comment-328 The reading was most enjoyable, thank you. And, I managed to convince this dude sitting next to me to stay and hear you read as well. He asked, "So who are you here to see?" and I replied, rather confidently, "Elif Batuman." He goes, "Who's that?" I gave him a look like "have you been living under a rock?" but said, "Oh. Brilliant writer. She did that n+1 piece on the short story?" and so forth. Anyway, funny about the banana. To think there were "others [who] held the opposite opinion" that you should have one is alarming but whatever. Now I'm off to read your article in the LRB. Cheers ... The reading was most enjoyable, thank you. And, I managed to convince this dude sitting next to me to stay and hear you read as well. He asked, “So who are you here to see?” and I replied, rather confidently, “Elif Batuman.” He goes, “Who’s that?” I gave him a look like “have you been living under a rock?” but said, “Oh. Brilliant writer. She did that n+1 piece on the short story?” and so forth.

Anyway, funny about the banana. To think there were “others [who] held the opposite opinion” that you should have one is alarming but whatever. Now I’m off to read your article in the LRB.

Cheers …

]]> By: Indran Amirtthanayagam http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/04/01/bananagarden/comment-page-1/#comment-326 Indran Amirtthanayagam Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:39:26 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/2008/04/01/bananagarden/#comment-326 You have acquired Most Favored Writer status for me. We have all had to fend off ourselves in the shoving to grab the last banana in the room. cheers. Indran You have acquired Most Favored Writer status for me. We have all had to fend off ourselves in the shoving to grab the last banana in the room. cheers. Indran

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