I think getting to write in a newspaper is a very lucky thing, because you're always looking around and seeing where your piece is fitting into a larger narrative of what is considered news. Do you o into the office? Whol you talk to about this stuff? I go into the office very occasionally. I talk to my editor. Im, i'm just with my books. Now that ims, that's like, my fantasy is, like, i feel like i have a small room in my house that's full of my books, and it resembles my brain in that there's no order at all.
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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