"I can't really read when other people are around. It's something that really has to happen si," she says. "To get to a sort of, do that thinking and sifting and all the time feels just, it feels incredibly lucky." The novel is about a young woman who likes reading while lying down.
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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