This first one with parl segal first aired almost exactly two years ago. She was then a book critic at the new york times, and is now a staff writer there. We also talked about criticism itself, and how she thinks about those best of the year lists. So here's my conversation from december 20 nineteenth with parl siga.
Parul Sehgal, a former a book critic for The New York Times, is now a staff writer at The New Yorker.
“My job is I think to be honest with the reader and to keep surfacing new ways for me and for other people to think about books. New vocabularies of pleasure and disgust.”
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