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Biographical note
ELIF BATUMAN's first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.<b>Our funniest overthinker - </b><b>and the queen of the campus novel</b>... Selin is a droll and disarming narrator, and takes her place as <b>one of the finest hapless scholars in the literary canon.</b>
- Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday Times
Batuman has a gift for making the universe seem, somehow, like the benevolent and witty literary seminar you wish it were . . .<b> This novel wins you over in a million micro-observations.</b>
- Dwight Garner, The New York Times
<b>A richly suggestive and amusing book.</b>
- Jonathan Derbyshire, Financial Times
<b>Such an enchanting writer.</b>
- Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday Times
<b><i>Either/Or</i> is both an entertaining campus novel and an engaging disquisition on the very nature and purpose of novels.</b>
Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2022*