Episode 371: Parul Sehgal

Parul Sehgal is a book critic for The New York Times.

“If you write criticism, you’re interested really in that constant feeling of being moved by text. Awoken by text. Pissed off, turned on, all of these things. You want to be jolted.”

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Sehgal's archive at the New York Times

[17:11] “Mothers of Invention: A Group of Authors Finds New Narrative Possibilities in Parenthood” (Bookforum • 2015)

[17:20] “In Letters to the World, a New Wave of Memoirs Draws on the Intimate” (New York Times • 2019)

[17:33] “#MeToo Is All Too Real. But to Better Understand it, Turn to Fiction.” (New York Times • 2019)

[24:18] Longform Podcast #354: Jia Tolentino

[41:39] “Peter Luger Used to Sizzle. Now It Sputters.” (New York Times • 2019)