Sheila Heti

How Should a Person Be? (2010)

I liked the idea of this novel and was interested, esp. After reading a write-up in the New Yorker about how it was an incredible hybrid novel. Really?? The writing is at times witty and good but one of the best? Maybe it was the blow job in the first chapter and a few chapters later the dream ab...

How Should a Person Be? A Novel From Life (2012)

This ain't my flavor of Kool-Aid. Some clever observations and sizzling sentences. (Does Heti have a twitter account? I imagine she'd be good at it.) And sure, there's no story-story, and that's OK. Female friendship is such an under-explored topic that MAN, I was willing to go anywhere. But the ...

The Middle Stories (2002)