What's the Hard Part of Writing a Book?

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.”

Show notes:

• parulsehgal.com
• @parul_sehgal
• Sehgal's New York Times archive
• “Mothers of Invention: A Group of Authors Finds New Narrative Possibilities in Parenthood” (Bookforum • 2015)
• “In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate” (New York Times • 2019)
• “#MeToo Is All Too Real. But to Better Understand it, Turn to Fiction.” (New York Times • 2019)
• Jia Tolentino on Longform
• “Peter Luger Used to Sizzle. Now It Sputters.” (Pete Wells • New York Times • 2019)

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