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‘I Am the Cabbage Writer’ | Hannah Goldfield | The New York Review of Books

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In a series of conversations with Merve Emre at Wesleyan University, some of today’s sharpest working critics discuss their careers and methodology, and are then asked to close-read a text that they haven’t seen before. The Review is collaborating with Lit Hub to publish transcripts and recordings of these interviews, which across eleven episodes will offer an extensive look into the process of criticism. In the first two episodes of The Critic and Her Publics, we asked our guest critics to address, respectively, a feminist manifesto and a Russian poem with two contrasting translations. In this episode, our object is something different—food—and there are few people better positioned to illuminate the subject than Hannah Goldfield, a food critic at The New Yorker who for many years wrote their beloved “Tables for Two” column. I am someone with a frankly pragmatic approach to food: I know I need it so I don’t die. But reading Hannah’s poetic, playful, and sociable column week after week

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