The writer says there is no such thing as a good book that floats above it. He tries to understand why the author has come to this subject, what they set out to do on the page. "Bad books can ask amazing interesting questions produce incredibly interesting aesthetic effects"
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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