Literary Friction Special - Elif Batuman
Literary Friction
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"i think there's this idea that, like, if you put references to things that people don't get, they're going to feel alienated," she says. "I would just rather tune it the other way and have things in there that people might miss." She talks about her love of russian literature as well as structure.
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