Andlian: I've always been a lttle confused, like the book industry. It feels to me like it's a, the stakes with books feel so high to the writers and so low to the publishers,. And that that gap feels perilous. But i'm feeling very often, mistake these days, about yourself, for about books. Never about myself, but about books.
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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