Even though the air temperature is telling us that it”™s still winter, the spring semester”™s Durst Distinguished Lecture Series gets underway Feb. 15 at the Humanities Theatre on the Purchase College campus.
Featured in the event that begins at 4:30 p.m. is Elif Batuman, the author of “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them,” which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Also current is her best-selling novel “The Idiot.”
Batuman has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010.
Anthony Domestico, assistant professor of literature at Purchase College, said, “”™The Idiot”™ is one of the funniest novels I”™ve read in years. It”™s also one of the most stylish and one of the most intelligent, and one of the weirdest.”
