Merve Emre is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, the author of many award-winning books, and a professor at the University of Oxford. She recently served as a judge for the International Booker Prize. By any metric, Merve is some kind of genius, a wunderkind. Merve and Gabe chop it up about Merve’s journey from Turkey to Brooklyn as a young child. What was it like for her family to live in Park Slope in the early 90’s? How did she break her arm that one time as a kid, and how does that event inform who she is today?
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