Every book that crosses my ask is maybe four years of somebody's life. That's what weighs on me. And i have about a week, maybe three, four days to read and summon up some opinion... It slows me down and makes me alittle bit more careful. But i do that there's part of me that miss the proliferation of so many other book sections.
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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