"A little bit unplugged"

As a serious admirer and teacher of Jhumpa Lahiri's work, I was happy to read a recent interview with her in The Atlantic.  I was particularly interested in her response to a question about whether she was interested in writing criticism.  She replied,

Not so much. I don't like to judge. I don't feel comfortable doing that. But by saying that, I don't mean to judge people who do. A critic is an extremely valuable thing in art or literature or music, but I don't feel it's what I want to do. Before I wrote a book, I wrote some reviews and it was great fun. I'd get free books and write up a little something and I was into it. But then something changed. I think it was writing my own book. To be honest with you, and maybe this is shirking my duty in some way, I like to try and stay as disconnected as I can from the world of contemporary writing because I just think it's best for my writing. I want to be a little bit unplugged.

I so connected with that.  I need to think some more about why that hit home.