For years, i would write criticism on the side. I had a number of jobs doing different kinds of book coverage. Then i came to the times, working as an editor at the book review. And it was somehow balancing both,. like the necessity of the day job was very, very serious for me. You know, i didn't know how that could translate something that could be financially valuable.
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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