Hello, this is Elif Batuman. My most recent novel, Either/Or, is out in paperback with Penguin Press and Jonathan Cape.

Either/Or is a sequel to my first novel, The Idiot, which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Both novels are set in the 1990s, which is when I learned everything I know about web design.

The best way to keep up with my current writing is via The Elif Life (my Substack).

If you need a PR-type bio, there is one here.

If you would like to know what my mortal envelope looks like (for now), here are a couple of pictures taken in Rome in 2024 by Emily B. Frank.

For this one, we were initially planning to take pictures by a beautiful fountain, but some people were having a bachelorette party in front of it. But now I have a photo with a pink limousine in the background, instead of some boring old Roman fountain.

Pink limos not your jam? No sweat. Here’s one with a yellow building.

An older photo (2019) taken in Lviv by Valentyn Kuzan:

OK, that’s it – thanks for stopping by!