Slicke: I was trying to write around the fact that it wasn't working. And then started to ask a little bit about, you know, what does it mean to love this writer and have this writer exemplify all these things for readers? Slicke: This writers very rare in a lot of ways, i'm and then to ask why this book isn't working is so fruitful.
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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