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Parul Sehgal is a book critic for The New York Times. \n\n\u201cI write about books, I review books, but in a sense, to do my job at a newspaper also puts that pressure on a piece to say: why should you read or care about this? You\u2019re trying to tweeze out what is newsworthy, what is interesting, what is vital about this book\u2026.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.\u201d\n\nThanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\n\n\n\nparulsehgal.com\n\n\n@parul_sehgal\n\n\nSehgal's archive at the New York Times\n\n\n[17:11] \u201cMothers of Invention: A Group of Authors Finds New Narrative Possibilities in Parenthood\u201d (Bookforum \u2022 2015)\n\n\n[17:20] \u201cIn Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate\u201d (New York Times \u2022 2019)\n\n\n[17:33] \u201c#MeToo Is All Too Real. But to Better Understand it, Turn to Fiction.\u201d (New York Times \u2022 2019)\n\n\n[24:18] Longform Podcast #354: Jia Tolentino\n\n\n[41:39] \u201cPeter Luger Used to Sizzle. Now It Sputters.\u201d (New York Times \u2022 2019)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices