Comments on: The travel issue http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/04/12/the-travel-issue/ "A writer is nothing but a gray dirt-covered root." Herman Wouk Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:22:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Senem http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/04/12/the-travel-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-4688 Senem Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:04:58 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=916#comment-4688 Dear Elif, I would like to send you a picture of The Possessed in New Jersey, but like Nancy, I'm unable to find an e-mail to which I could send it. Senem Dear Elif,
I would like to send you a picture of The Possessed in New Jersey, but like Nancy, I’m unable to find an e-mail to which I could send it.
Senem

]]> By: nancy.miller http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/04/12/the-travel-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-1942 nancy.miller Tue, 04 May 2010 22:33:16 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=916#comment-1942 I have 4 great pictures but I dont know how to send them via this little box. Do you have an email address I can send the pictures to? 5-5-2010 Stockholm, Sweden Greetings Elif! Picked up your book in a Borders Bookshop on a visit to Delray Beach, Florida to see my parents. It was the Roz Chast cover that caught my eye in combination with the placement of your book beside Lucette Lagnado´s The Man in the White Shark Skin Suit that made me notice your book. But it was your book´s subtitle Adventures with Russian Books and the People…that clinched the deal for me. I wish I had bought 20 more copies to give to all my friends – you probably do too. I will gladly oblige you with a few pictures of your book in Stockholm Sweden where I have been living for the last 20 years and where your book now resides and circulates. There´s a shot in front of soviet-style apartments – part of the social democratic Million Program…another in front of Stockholm City Hall where the nobel prize dinner is held…a pose in front of the obligatory Stockholm seascape – Stockholm is called the Venice of the North…and the last a picture in front of a Stockholm garbage can to attest to the authenticity of this Nordic photo shoot. Thanks for your brilliant and funny book, Nancy Miller 5-5-2010 Stockholm, Sweden I have 4 great pictures but I dont know how to send them via this little box. Do you have an email address I can send the pictures to?

5-5-2010
Stockholm, Sweden

Greetings Elif!
Picked up your book in a Borders Bookshop on a visit to Delray Beach, Florida to see my parents. It was the Roz Chast cover that caught my eye in combination with the placement of your book beside Lucette Lagnado´s The Man in the White Shark Skin Suit that made me notice your book. But it was your book´s subtitle Adventures with Russian Books and the People…that clinched the deal for me. I wish I had bought 20 more copies to give to all my friends – you probably do too.
I will gladly oblige you with a few pictures of your book in Stockholm Sweden where I have been living for the last 20 years and where your book now resides and circulates. There´s a shot in front of soviet-style apartments – part of the social democratic Million Program…another in front of Stockholm City Hall where the nobel prize dinner is held…a pose in front of the obligatory Stockholm seascape – Stockholm is called the Venice of the North…and the last a picture in front of a Stockholm garbage can to attest to the authenticity of this Nordic photo shoot.
Thanks for your brilliant and funny book,
Nancy Miller
5-5-2010
Stockholm, Sweden

]]> By: Duncan http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/04/12/the-travel-issue/comment-page-1/#comment-1700 Duncan Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:24:49 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=916#comment-1700 I just finished reading the Possessed. I was the first one to check it out of the La Crosse Public Library. I hope they don't try to make a movie out of your book, unless it's done by Charlie Kaufman. I had some minor criticisms of it at first and almost put it down but there was enough there to keep me intrigued and I'm glad I continued because by the time I finished I didn't want to put it down, or give it back to the library for that matter. You made literary theory understandable. I've read some Russian books, no Tolstoy other than short stories though. I read the Devils last year, used to have a paperback version called The Possessed years ago but I was in my early 20's and couldn't get the hang of the Russian names. One of the things I now like about 19th cent. Russian novels is the long drawn out names, ha! Perverse. I'll have to give Tolstoy a shot, but those books are long my friend and right now Anna Karenina has that Oprah bookclub taint to it. I'm sure that's not Tolstoy's fault though. Take care, I hope you end up writing novels, you have the flair. I just finished reading the Possessed. I was the first one to check it out of the La Crosse Public Library. I hope they don’t try to make a movie out of your book, unless it’s done by Charlie Kaufman. I had some minor criticisms of it at first and almost put it down but there was enough there to keep me intrigued and I’m glad I continued because by the time I finished I didn’t want to put it down, or give it back to the library for that matter. You made literary theory understandable. I’ve read some Russian books, no Tolstoy other than short stories though. I read the Devils last year, used to have a paperback version called The Possessed years ago but I was in my early 20’s and couldn’t get the hang of the Russian names. One of the things I now like about 19th cent. Russian novels is the long drawn out names, ha! Perverse. I’ll have to give Tolstoy a shot, but those books are long my friend and right now Anna Karenina has that Oprah bookclub taint to it. I’m sure that’s not Tolstoy’s fault though. Take care, I hope you end up writing novels, you have the flair.

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