The writer builds a museum to himself.

Toronto Globe and Mail || May 14, 2012

Forced to smuggle thoughts of value into the small spaces between plot summary and biographical detail, reviewers accomplish next to nothing.

n+1 || June 23, 2011

Elif Batuman’s life changed when she published a hit book. She writes about how it feels no longer to be the outsider – and about asking Jonathan Franzen for some weed

The Guardian || April 21, 2011

She is an unknown struggling writer. Her boyfriend is Jonathan Franzen.

The Guardian || June 22, 2003

Jane Eyre is the foremother of a literary tradition in which gothic interiors and sinister doubles comment on the female experience.

Bitch || #42 (Winter 2008)

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