Rerun: #371 Parul Seghal (Dec 2019)

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Education, Arts, Books, News

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

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) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Max.
0:07.1	So we're off for the next couple of weeks, but we'll be back, of course, with new episodes
0:10.5	in 2022.
0:11.5	And in the meantime, we're going to put a couple of our favorite episodes of the show back
0:15.9	through the feed.
0:17.3	This first one with Parle Segal, first aired almost exactly two years ago, a couple of
0:23.5	things have changed in those last two years, including that Parle got a new job.
0:27.5	She was then a book critic at The New York Times.
0:30.0	She's now a staff writer at The New Yorker.
0:33.0	But this conversation felt like a good one to come back to, in part because it's one
0:37.1	of those conversations that I've come back to again and again since we had it.
0:40.9	It's just been like rattling around in my head, particularly when I'm reading.
0:46.1	But Parle didn't just talk about how she reads and how she thinks about books.
0:50.1	She did talk about that and it is fascinating to hear on those subjects, but we also talked
0:54.8	about criticism itself and also, critically, for this time of year, how she thinks about
0:59.9	those best of the year lists.
1:02.1	So here's my conversation from December 2019 with Parle Segal.
1:09.3	Hey, Parle.
1:13.3	Hey, Max, thanks for having me.
1:17.5	Oh, thanks for coming on the podcast.
1:20.8	I feel like there are many things for us to discuss.
1:23.2	This is going to be one of these conversations, occasionally people come on the show and
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