"I feel sometimes like a burglar in these pieces, like i'm in and i'm looking around, ink, i have to get out of here," she says. "The hard part is, hard part is it's the pace." She has about 800 to 11 hundred words for each 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.”
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