


In a beautifully wide-ranging conversation, she filled us in on what the sequel to The Idiot that she’s working on right now looks like, why the novel is a politically radical form, and why you should never be embarrassed about anything.

And to culminate our month of discussion, Batuman herself paid a virtual visit to the club for a live chat with us on Zoom. The Vox Book Club spent September reading The Idiot, Elif Batuman’s witty and touching campus novel about trying to become a writer at Harvard in 1995. The Vox Book Club is linking to to support local and independent booksellers.
