#  Writers Speak | Elif Batuman in conversation with Beth Blum 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 17, 2022** 

 06:00PM - 06:00PM EST 

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 **Emerson Hall, Room 105**  



 

 



 



 

##  [WRITERS SPEAK](/writers-speak)

##  SPEAKER: Elif Batuman

###  About the Speakers

 [Elif Batuman](http://elifbatuman.com/)’s first novel, *[The Idiot](https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780143111061),* was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and for the Women’s Prize. She is also the author of *[The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them](https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780374532185)*. She has been a staff writer at the *New Yorker* since 2010, and holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. Her second novel, [*Either/Or*,](https://shop.harvard.com/book/9780525557593) was published in 2022.

 [Beth Blum](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/beth-blum) teaches modern and contemporary literature at Harvard University, where she is the Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English. Her book, [*The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature*](https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-self-help-compulsion/9780231194921) was published in 2020 with Columbia University Press.

###  About the Series

 [Writers Speak](/writers-speak), a series of literary conversations at the Mahindra Humanities Center, is convened by [Duncan White](https://scholar.harvard.edu/dew/home), Associate Director of Studies in History & Literature at Harvard University.



 

 



 

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- [ Literature ](/disciplines/comparative-literature)
- [ Writers Speak ](/event-series/writers-speak)
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