#47: Rebecca Mead, staff writer, the New Yorker
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The Importance of Writing Books About Books
I loved Olivia Lang's first book. Maybe I liked all her books, but she'd only written the one about Virginia Woolf at the time that I was doing this book. And I thought that that was a beautiful example of how literature and life kind of are not separate things, but become the same thing in one's imagination. The middle-March book was a joy. It was, I wrote it very quickly and I had a wonderful time doing it. You might book about anything if it's a good book. No, I don't think a reviewer has to take a line. But yeah, so it's definitely a trend. Would you say it's a trend that has emerged
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