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Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti is the author of seven books, including the critically acclaimed "How Should a Person Be?" and the New York Times Bestseller, "Women in Clothes" (edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton). She is the former interviews editor at The Believer magazine, and has been published in The... show more

Sheila Heti is the author of seven books, including the critically acclaimed "How Should a Person Be?" and the New York Times Bestseller, "Women in Clothes" (edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton). She is the former interviews editor at The Believer magazine, and has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, The Paris Review, n+1, The London Review of Books, and more. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. She lives in Toronto.
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Birth date: December 25, 1976
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 9 years ago
hs This collection is not as good as the previous collection, though it does have slightly more international feel (several stories are translations). Despite the title, there is more than Greek mythology in play here as well. Perhaps because it is sadder, the term that Bernheimer us...
Words, Words, Words
Words, Words, Words rated it 10 years ago
How does one begin talking about this book? I had remembered on its release something of a battle along gender lines; there were men who thought it unbecoming and women who found it brilliant. It seemed appropriate to read something dangerous in the year of #ReadWomen2014, and Sheila Heti delivers s...
Dor Does Books
Dor Does Books rated it 11 years ago
I've never seen Girls, that TV show everybody seems terribly keen on, but from time to time I read articles criticising it for being about Privileged White Girls. How Should A Person Be? made me think of every criticism I've ever read levelled at that TV show which I haven't seen. I didn't like it. ...
M.W. Gerard
M.W. Gerard rated it 11 years ago
Please read my full review here (after Sept 26th)
Book Brats
Book Brats rated it 11 years ago
Continuing from last week, where I reviewed the subpar SAD DESK SALAD by Jessica Grose, I’m just now reviewing HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? by Sheila Heti. It’s in the same vein of book – hipster fiction about twentysomethings who have lost their way in life before their lives have even really begun. (No...
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