Comments for MY LIFE AND THOUGHTS http://www.elifbatuman.net "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness." George Orwell Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:05:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 Comment on THE DEEP by Sean Carman http://www.elifbatuman.net/2012/02/05/the-deep/comment-page-1/#comment-5084 Sean Carman Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:05:47 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=2061#comment-5084 This is lovely! This is lovely!

]]> Comment on TALKING HEADS by Dave Lull http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/04/08/talking-heads/comment-page-3/#comment-5060 Dave Lull Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:52:05 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=901#comment-5060 Robert Fay: Batuman’s Take Down of MFA Literary Fiction http://robertfay.com/2012/02/batumans-take-down-of-mfa-literary-fiction/ Robert Fay: Batuman’s Take Down of MFA Literary Fiction

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]]> Comment on THE OLD CALENDAR OF THE BUTTON COLLECTOR by Pickson http://www.elifbatuman.net/2012/01/26/the-old-calendar-of-the-button-collector/comment-page-1/#comment-5037 Pickson Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:39:48 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=2053#comment-5037 Elif, How...does one pronounce your name? I was surprised by the intro in the video, and no longer want to shame myself by butchering it in mixed company. Elif, How…does one pronounce your name? I was surprised by the intro in the video, and no longer want to shame myself by butchering it in mixed company.

]]> Comment on THE OLD CALENDAR OF THE BUTTON COLLECTOR by ray http://www.elifbatuman.net/2012/01/26/the-old-calendar-of-the-button-collector/comment-page-1/#comment-5036 ray Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:31:25 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=2053#comment-5036 Hello Elif.. it's really nice to have found your blog... and it invariably leads me on to think of other things... Buttons.... always a powerful symbol, no doubt beloved of semioticians. Have you noticed how Nabokov seems to be very interested in missing buttons? And talking of Nabokov, and linking with the Turkish writer above, surely Nabokov must be the most astonishing "writer of English as a second/third language" ....... both technically and artistically. Even if he had only written Pale Fire, that would inscribe his name on the cup. Here's an entirely different thing.... In his highly interesting and unusual " Learning Russian", Ian Press makes an interesting throwaway (?) remark that many people learning Russian are left-handed. I wonder..... Best wishes from ray. Hello Elif.. it’s really nice to have found your blog… and it invariably leads me on to think of other things…
Buttons…. always a powerful symbol, no doubt beloved of semioticians. Have you noticed how Nabokov seems to be very interested in missing buttons?
And talking of Nabokov, and linking with the Turkish writer above, surely Nabokov must be the most astonishing “writer of English as a second/third language” ……. both technically and artistically. Even if he had only written Pale Fire, that would inscribe his name on the cup.
Here’s an entirely different thing…. In his highly interesting and unusual ” Learning Russian”, Ian Press makes an interesting throwaway (?) remark that many people learning Russian are left-handed. I wonder…..
Best wishes from ray.

]]> Comment on THE OLD CALENDAR OF THE BUTTON COLLECTOR by Turku http://www.elifbatuman.net/2012/01/26/the-old-calendar-of-the-button-collector/comment-page-1/#comment-5033 Turku Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:07:40 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=2053#comment-5033 Elif, this was indeed a terrific conversation. Having been preternaturally possessed by The Possessed, I was delighted to finally meet the Ecinni in the flesh. Anyway, here is a clip of that speech by the fictitious restaurant critic Anton Ego that I had mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JPOoFkrh94 (nb. Ego is supposed to be styled on the mercurial Will Self, or so Will Self likes to flatter himself - although the two names do, erm, echo) Elif, this was indeed a terrific conversation. Having been preternaturally possessed by The Possessed, I was delighted to finally meet the Ecinni in the flesh.

Anyway, here is a clip of that speech by the fictitious restaurant critic Anton Ego that I had mentioned: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JPOoFkrh94

(nb. Ego is supposed to be styled on the mercurial Will Self, or so Will Self likes to flatter himself – although the two names do, erm, echo)

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