Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Searles Science Building 315

Free and open to the public
The author will sign books, and books will be available for purchase

Elif Batuman will read from her work. Batuman is the author of three books: a memoir, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them and novels The Idiot -  a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - and Either/Or. The Possessed is based on material Batuman previously published in The New Yorker and in Harper's Magazine and details her time as a comparative literature graduate student at Stanford University. Her novel The Idiot is partly based on her experience attending Harvard in the mid-1990s and teaching English in Hungary in the summer of 1996.  Batuman was writer-in-residence at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, from 2010 to 2013. She lives in New York and is a staff writer for The New Yorker.