Aniana: To be useful and not boringi think i'm diverting them. Jap, that's a realy good question. How do you refresh that feeling of excitement? Painters used to have this thing that, i think it's like a mirror that was painted black,. And they used to look at that to refresh their eyes. I sik, i wish sometimes i had a way to sort of refresh that sort of instinct. You are your own apparatus, right? Like how things are gong to play on you, becomes this piece you create. Aniana goes back to this idea that we were talking about before of just even learning your own moves.
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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