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Why Sarah Jessica Parker Is the Perfect Booker Prize Judge


Sarah Jessica Parker is judging the Booker Prize, the world's most prestigious literary award. Why she's the right star for the job

Having just completed a promotional cycle to launch the third season of “And Just Like That …” — on which Carrie, coincidentally enough, is starting to write her own first novel — Parker has time in her schedule. (A spin through her Instagram reveals that, before getting caught up in judging, she was reading Rachel Kushner, Sally Rooney, Rumaan Alam and other esteemed contemporary authors.) But simply treating Parker — or any talented actor who likes to read and gets a shot at judging a prize of this caliber — as a fan isn’t sufficient.

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