The so-called craft of creative writing…
I have just made the most interesting discovery… there is a school of academic thought that is perpetrating the idea that reading novels is actually bad for a writer’s development! More sophisticated...
View ArticleThe Possessed (2010), by Elif Batuman
Although I grew up in a house full of classic literature, the only Russian author I came across on our shelves then was Leo Tolstoy when I read Anna Karenina. I also read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One...
View ArticleHow Russia Changed My Life, MWF #2
It was lovely to see and hear, and then to meet Elif Batuman at this session! She is just the way I had imagined her from reading her book – a very attractive young woman, bright and lively, funny in a...
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