Comments on: Touring http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/03/23/touring/ "A writer never has a vacation." Eugene Ionesco Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:05:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Dave Lull http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/03/23/touring/comment-page-1/#comment-1342 Dave Lull Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:53:06 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=868#comment-1342 Q&A Reading the Russians Elif Batuman’s fresh look at a forbidding body of literature By Peter Terzian January 3, 2010 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/03/reading_the_russians/ Q&A
Reading the Russians
Elif Batuman’s fresh look at a forbidding body of literature
By Peter Terzian
January 3, 2010

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/01/03/reading_the_russians/

]]> By: Elif http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/03/23/touring/comment-page-1/#comment-1333 Elif Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:12:14 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=868#comment-1333 many thanks for the super-kind comments!! many thanks for the super-kind comments!!

]]> By: Christopher http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/03/23/touring/comment-page-1/#comment-1294 Christopher Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:25:39 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=868#comment-1294 In the past week I've seen three people reading your book on the 2/3 train! It seems to have become quite a New York hit. (Also --though you're probably aware of this due to the fact that he's writing his biography-- I stumbled upon something of a compliment to your Babel piece in Jonathan Brent's recent "Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia"... Check it out if you haven't already read it.) In the past week I’ve seen three people reading your book on the 2/3 train! It seems to have become quite a New York hit.

(Also –though you’re probably aware of this due to the fact that he’s writing his biography– I stumbled upon something of a compliment to your Babel piece in Jonathan Brent’s recent “Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia”… Check it out if you haven’t already read it.)

]]> By: Barbara Flowers http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/03/23/touring/comment-page-1/#comment-1290 Barbara Flowers Sat, 27 Mar 2010 02:18:16 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=868#comment-1290 Dear Elif, I love your book. I've been 'possessed' for exactly 48 years and now you've written about my kind, so thank you, Barbara PS It took me 35 years to finish Lydia Chukovskaya's 'Akhmatova Journal' at just one sentence every now and then. I can't decide whether to read 'The Possessed' very slowly and thus never quite finish it but as I'm already at page 115 I must make up my mind soon. Dear Elif, I love your book. I’ve been ‘possessed’ for exactly 48 years and now you’ve written about my kind, so thank you, Barbara

PS It took me 35 years to finish Lydia Chukovskaya’s ‘Akhmatova Journal’ at just one sentence every now and then. I can’t decide whether to read ‘The Possessed’ very slowly and thus never quite finish it but as I’m already at page 115 I must make up my mind soon.

]]> By: Lekha http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/03/23/touring/comment-page-1/#comment-1285 Lekha Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:47:56 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=868#comment-1285 Elif, I just read The Possessed and not having any background in Russian lit I still found it scintillating, interesting and I am convinced you will also write a huge novel someday. I bought the Kindle edition and found some of the links to notes a bit finicky but overall a great read. I am a fifth year doctoral candidate in natural resource policy and behavior and was fascinated by your stories (some of which I'd read previously in the New Yorker). It was reassuring to read that others have also taken a meandering path through the PhD process. I also found an announcement in my email this morning that the University of Michigan (where I study) is offering an introductory course on Uzbek!! "This course will introduce students to modern Uzbek, a Turkic language that is prevalent in contemporary Central Asia. Instruction in both speaking and writing will be proficiency-based; the course will include conversation, grammar and syntax, and composition and translation. No prerequisites. " Elif,
I just read The Possessed and not having any background in Russian lit I still found it scintillating, interesting and I am convinced you will also write a huge novel someday. I bought the Kindle edition and found some of the links to notes a bit finicky but overall a great read.
I am a fifth year doctoral candidate in natural resource policy and behavior and was fascinated by your stories (some of which I’d read previously in the New Yorker). It was reassuring to read that others have also taken a meandering path through the PhD process.
I also found an announcement in my email this morning that the University of Michigan (where I study) is offering an introductory course on Uzbek!!

“This course will introduce students to modern Uzbek, a Turkic language that is prevalent in contemporary Central Asia. Instruction in both speaking and writing will be proficiency-based; the course will include conversation, grammar and syntax, and composition and translation. No prerequisites. “

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