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Before publishing her debut novel, "Worry," Alexandra Tanner spoke to us about memes, mommy bloggers, and Miss Americana: Taylor Swift.

A to Z of the Self: Sheila Heti’s ingenious new book, Alphabetical Diaries, takes 10 years of diary entries and rearranges them in alphabetical order.

Canadian writer Sheila Heti’s 2010 breakout novel sought to interrogate its titular puzzler, How Should a Person Be? It’s become a continuing quest, but over the course of a career that now finds her publishing her 12th book, she’s also asked readers to consider again and again another question: how should prose be? Pairing philosophical inquiry with formal experimentation, she’s drawn inspiration from sources as scattered as reality TV, the I Ching and chatbot utterances, expanding our ...

The Canadian author’s alphabetised restructuring of her journals is by turns illuminating, playful, poetic and frustrating

Heti takes her autofiction to the next level by publishing her journals—with editing help from Excel

‘I came to believe it was a writer’s duty to reveal what other people wouldn’t. To tell everything.’ Sheila Heti in conversation with Phyllis Rose.

As the Alphabetical Diaries is published, Sheila Heti discusses keeping a diary, her dislike of the term ‘autofiction’, and fragmenting time and place in her writing to extraordinary effect

Before the release of "Alphabetical Diaries," Sheila Heti told us how she turned her private journals into an exhilarating, alphabetized book.

The dogs were filmed sharing their beds and toys with the new golden retriever puppy, who is named Oliver.

With diary sentences sorted alphabetically, the book contributes to Heti’s moral project of seeking impossible answers to human questions