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S7: So I think that there’s more objectivity to the art of writing criticism than is generally perceived. And once I’ve done that, I feel entitled to be merciless if I want to to be unkind or to be, you know, or else I sometimes see things that I didn’t see before. I think that with every book I review of every genre, I try to go to the writers five yard line, like I try to completely understand what they’re trying to do. And so they’re trying to say, well, what is this telling us about our moment of life? What is this saying in the context of the author’s other work? And then more broadly, I think it’s I actually don’t agree completely that it’s about personal reckoning or personal preference. But I think that the best reviews often have an essayistic quality. I mean, I think there are a lot of reviews that don’t have a lot of value if it’s just a recapitulation of plot or if it’s just a statement of preference. What is the value then in the art, if indeed criticism is an art that you have produced right in that two thousand word essay, like what is the value to the reader or to the culture more broadly? And so you were tasked with responding to that feeling or distilling that feeling in 2000 words. S1: What you’re describing, though, sounds to me like a matter of personal reckoning, right? Like you, Charlie Finch had a single kind of experience reading Alice Smith’s novel Summer or Karlovic, now scarred.

#CHARLES FINCH WINDOWS#

I mean, there are many windows to my father’s house or whatever, but I think criticism is somewhere where you can really try to analyze why art is important to you and why it matters to you and where it succeeds and where it fails. And so I think that’s the art of criticism to me, is trying to explain emotions, which in a way all art forms are trying to do through different means. And I have to try to cobble together something lucid and intelligent and rational about that. And then as a critic, I had to go back and look at where I put an exclamation point in the marginal stuff. So you have to think about why did I when I read, you know, when I read Alice Smith’s most recent book, I stirred up all these interesting and strange feelings in me. And I think the answer for me is that books evoke like a feeling first and then you have to try to feel lucidly in words. S7: I think that’s such a great question. What is that other thing like? What is the sort of endeavor of the book critic? S1: So to be a critic is not just to discharge your own enthusiasm for reading itself, it’s to do some other thing. So yeah, I have this kind of bifurcated career, but they all come out of the same source river. OK, now stay there to a writer because I think I’ve really summed up what you are getting at and what you are, which is probably an arrogant thing to think about. And you can really I sometimes think at the end of the review. You have 800 words or twelve hundred words or two thousand words. I always think of Virginia Woolf saying the satisfaction of of a writing review is you can really spear the eel in the marrow, like you can really get it right. Criticism when I found it, which was in the mid 2010s, it was a huge relief because I had been writing so much fiction and criticism. But you have this other job, and I wonder if you could talk to me a little bit about your other job, which is my understanding is as a book critic.

#CHARLES FINCH SERIES#

S1: In many ways, it feels to me like a very of the moment thing, to have more than one job and you are a writer who I think of as having more than one job, one of your jobs is as a novelist, principally interested in writing a series of mystery novels with the beloved protagonist named Charles Lennox. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates.S5: All right, now let’s hear Ramen’s conversation with Charles Finch. You have chosen this person to be their own family member.

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