Alexandra Tanner Wrote a Novel for the Terminally Online
Before publishing her debut novel, "Worry," Alexandra Tanner spoke to us about memes, mommy bloggers, and Miss Americana: Taylor Swift.
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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 thinking
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