Rerun: #371 Parul Seghal (Dec 2019)
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.”Show notes:
- parulsehgal.com
- @parul_sehgal
- Sehgal's New York Times archive
- “Mothers of Invention: A Group of Authors Finds New Narrative Possibilities in Parenthood” (Bookforum • 2015)
- “In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate” (New York Times • 2019)
- “#MeToo Is All Too Real. But to Better Understand it, Turn to Fiction.” (New York Times • 2019)
- Jia Tolentino on Longform
- “Peter Luger Used to Sizzle. Now It Sputters.” (Pete Wells • New York Times • 2019)
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