Elif Batuman Reads “Constructed Worlds”
- Author
- The New Yorker
- Published
- Tue 17 Jan 2017
- Episode Link
- https://the-new-yorker-the-writers-voice-new-fiction-from-the-ne.simplecast.com/episodes/elif-batuman-reads-constructed-worlds-U0T8kfo_
"It was a mystery to me how Svetlana generated so many opinions. Any piece of information seemed to produce an opinion on contact. Meanwhile, I went from class to class, read hundreds—thousands—of pages of the distilled ideas of the great thinkers of human history, and nothing happened."
