"i like things that are kind of always figuring out how to unravel this form and and make it to suit some other set of purposes," she says. "I think i'm very much part of, you know, when i'm writing something, it's a gene that i don't really know a lot about,. or it's something that maybe on some level i haven't really respected ... I do put myself in that position."
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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