Tagged | Elif Batuman | Penguin Random House Audio

Blog

Olugbemisola Rhuday Perkovich, Elif Batuman, Tad Friend

On the Podcast: Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Elif Batuman, and Tad Friend May 24, 2022

In this episode, meet children’s fiction and non-fiction author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, author of Mae Makes a Way, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Idiot Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or, and The New Yorker staff writer Tad Friend, author of In the Early Times. READ MORE

Tags: book club, Either/Or, Elif Batuman, Family Listening, In the Early Times, Mae Makes a Way, memoir, Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, read by the author, Tad Friend, This is the Author

This Is The Author | Elif Batuman April 12, 2017

“My book is based on the draft of a novel I wrote and gave up on over 15 years ago when I was in my early 20s and I only reread it in my thirties and at that point I had gotten a PhD in Literature and I spent time teaching undergraduates and I published a book of essays — which you definitely read or listen to as an audiobook — it’s called The Possessed.”

Learn more about The Idiot.

Tags: bookclub, Elif Batuman, Novel, Podcast, the idiot