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Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman, who completed her PhD last year, lives in San Francisco.

From the London Review dated 10 April 2008

Into the Eisenshpritz

The term ‘graphic novel’ is dismissed by most of its practitioners as either an empty euphemism or a marketing ploy. As Marjane Satrapi puts it, graphic novels simply enable ‘the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad’; according to Alan Moore, they allow publishers to ‘stick six issues of whatever worthless piece of crap they happened to be publishing lately under a glossy cover and call it The She-Hulk Graphic Novel’. [ read more . . . ]

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Into the Eisenshpritz · 10 April 2008