Young Love In Elif Batuman's 'The Idiot'

New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman joins us to discuss her novel The Idiot, which follows a young woman’s freshman year at Harvard in 1995. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, develops a relationship with Ivan, an older Hungarian mathematics student, while exchanging emails. The novel is an exploration of early adulthood and a young woman's attempts to figure out her own identity. 

Elif Batuman will appear at the following events:
-May 10 at House of Speakeasy at Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St.). Tickets are $15-$35. Doors open at 6 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m.
-May 31 in conversation with Deborah Treisman at BAM's Eat, Drink & Be Literary Series. Located in the Peter Jay Sharp Building's BAMcafe (30 Lafayette Ave., at Ashland Pl. Brooklyn) at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $65.