I hadn't, i had no background in writing, or in literature, or medin anything like this. I came from good indian stock of chemical engineersha,. thos are my people. It's a different world from them. And to sort of come to a programme and just learn about literary fashions was an interesting thing. To get also caught up in what other people were reading is very effective. My own reading was older and strange and sort of very programmatic - but for some reason that didn't bother me too much. The book will be published on November 14 by Simon & Schuster at £16.99.
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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