I don't think i respond to anything the way i do books, says Andi. Reading in language that has always just been above anything else. Do you like merge in this way in other things in your life, or is it just books? I mean, do i idon't. O you thot they're fruitlessly trying to merge with other thing. It's a very human act of sifting, refining, thinking, commenting at the heart of this work.
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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