{"title":"Elif Batuman","description":"Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. The Idiot is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/elif-batuman.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}