For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccuratel... -Elif Batuman

For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.

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Elif Batuman is a Turkish-American writer and journalist. She is known for her novels and essays, including "The Idiot" and "The Possessed," which explore themes of literature, culture, and her experiences as a Turkish-American writer.

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My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researche...
My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped a grade, was dissecting c...
Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, ...
At the beginning of 'A Christmas Carol,' Scrooge embodies one of the central tenets of depression: that one has always been this way - and always will...
For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childh...
There are very few things that I have any patience for that are not at least a little bit humorous....
When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him....
I have always known my mother as an agnostic, less certain than my father that the universe hadn't been created by some great intelligence. But she wo...

Christmas Quotes to Explore

Christmas is my favorite time of the year....
I hope maybe I'll be in a Christmas movie that becomes part of someone's holiday tradition....
I remember my first Christmas with Leeds, training Christmas Day. I wasn't old enough to drive yet - so I had to get picked up and taken in!...
I love Christmas movies....
I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and my brothers and I love to go to The Mountain Opry when we are home. There is alway an abundance of laughter ...
I am a romantic. I want to cry when I throw out my Christmas tree, and I have a lot of feelings about magic and fantasy....
We always watch 'The Polar Express.' I love that movie; that's a very, very nice Christmas tradition that we have....
As soon as I discovered PlayStation, I was throwing hints here and there to my dad - cutting out the clipping of a video game, cutting out the clippin...
Mama, you know, poor baby, she'd had her family all finished: four daughters and a couple of sons, and suddenly, I arrived in her midlife on Christmas...
There were very few British black women on TV or in music when I was a teenager; when you're growing up, you need someone you can identify with. I rem...