Episode Sixty-Seven: Elif Batuman
In This Episode:
Elif Batuman sits down in the Damn Library to talk about college, because sometimes you just wish you could go back to college. Her book The Idiot took both Drew and Christopher back and much is made of the people we are now vs. the people we were then. Speaking of time, attention then turns to the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time - Swann's Way, the recent Lydia Davis translation.
Other Highlights:
* Can Paris be Paris without an Eiffel Tower?
* Beauty vs. love
* Accidentally becoming a Dostoyevskyite
* We launched a Patreon! Give us a dollar (a month) and we'll give you even more SMDB.
LISTEN:
THE EP. 67 BOOKSHELF
(CONTAINING ALL THE BOOKS DISCUSSED WHILE RECORDING)
THIS EPISODE'S BOOKS:
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
WHAT'D YOU BUY?:
Elif: The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar
Christopher: Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Drew: New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
ALSO MENTIONED:
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Loner by Teddy Wayne
The Possessed by Elif Batuman
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Lectures on Russian Literature by Vladimir Nabokov
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn
In Search of Lost Time, Vols. 2-6 by Marcel Proust
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Drew: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell
Christopher: Orange, Vol. 1 by Ichigo Takano
Elif: The Collected Peanuts 1977-1978 by Charles M. Schulz & On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
