This Week in Reading How Should a Person Be by Sheila Heti How Should a Person Be exists somewhere between essay and novel and nonfiction. Written by Sheila Heti, it centers around a protagonist named Sheila as she contemplates the titular question of the book. It includes recorded conversations between Shelia and her best friend Margaux, Heti’s real life friend, to whom the novel is dedicated. Though it follows a linear timeline, it is less of a novel and more of a meditation on being, art, and friendship.
arriving where we already are
arriving where we already are
arriving where we already are
This Week in Reading How Should a Person Be by Sheila Heti How Should a Person Be exists somewhere between essay and novel and nonfiction. Written by Sheila Heti, it centers around a protagonist named Sheila as she contemplates the titular question of the book. It includes recorded conversations between Shelia and her best friend Margaux, Heti’s real life friend, to whom the novel is dedicated. Though it follows a linear timeline, it is less of a novel and more of a meditation on being, art, and friendship.