Sheila Heti

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Norwegian literary sensation Karl Ove Knausgård discusses the third book in his acclaimed My Struggle cycle, Boyhood Island, with Canadian author Sheila Heti. Siri Agrell hosts.

Siri Agrell is a Toronto-based writer and communications strategist. She served as Deputy Director of Communications to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne after working for more than a decade as a reporter for publications like The Globe and Mail, National Post and Ottawa Citizen. She is the co-founder of TypeFace, a literary portrait project that benefits the Toronto Public Library Foundation. Her first book, Bad Bridesmaid, was published in 2007.

Sheila Heti is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, The Middle Stories, which was published in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the United States, and Spain. Her most recent book is the novel Ticknor. She is a regular interviewer for the journal The Believer and is the creator of the popular lecture series Trampoline Hall.

Karl Ove Knausgård’s novel Out of the World was the first-ever debut to win the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature. He is the author of the breathtaking My Struggle cycle, which includes six novels that can be read independently or as one hugely ambitious project. Knausgård presents the third installment of the My Struggle cycle, Boyhood Island, an autobiographical story of family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be.

Saturday, October 25, 2014 - 7:30 PM
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Tuesday, July 2 at 7PM

Critically Acclaimed Author Sheila Heti speaking & signing How should a person be?: A Novel From Life

Heti will appear in conversation with Jill Meyers, Codirector of A Strange Object.

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The speaking portion of this event is free and open to the public.

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About How a Person Should Be? : A Novel From Life

Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close—sometimes too close—observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life.

Using transcribed conversations, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, the brilliant and always innovative Sheila Heti crafts a work that is part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy confessional. It's a totally shameless and dynamic exploration into the way we live now, which breathes fresh wisdom into the eternal questions: What is the sincerest way to love? What kind of person should you be?

About Sheila Heti: Sheila Heti was born on December 25, 1976 in Toronto. She studied playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada, then attended the University of Toronto, where she studied art history and philosophy. She has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, n+1, McSweeney’s, Brick, Geist, Maisonneuve, Bookforum, and is also the author of four previous books.

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“Funny…odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable…Unlike any other novel I can think of.” —David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review

Please join us for an evening with author Sheila Heti celebrating the paperback edition of How should a person be? with a reading and book signing. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE

Hailed as “a breakthrough” (Chris Kraus, Los Angeles Review of Books) for the critically acclaimed Sheila Heti, How should a person be? is an unabashedly honest and hilarious tour through the unknowable pieces of one woman’s heart and mind. It has ignited conversation and earned Heti comparisons to Joan Didion, Henry Miller, Kathy Acker, and Gustave Flaubert.

Part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy exploration of the artistic impulse, it shocked and excited critics and readers with its raw, urgent depiction of female friendships and of the shape of our lives right now. In a novel “unlike any other,” Heti breathes new life into the essential questions: What is the most noble way to love? What kind of person should you be?

“A vital and funny picture of the excitements and longueurs of trying to be a young creator in a free, late-capitalist Western City.” —James Wood, The New Yorker

“One of the bravest, strangest, most original novels I’ve read this year.” —Christopher Boucher, The Boston Globe

“A really amazing metafiction-meets-nonfiction novel that’s so funny and strange.” —Lena Dunham, Entertainment Weekly

“I read this eccentric book in one sitting, amazed, disgusted, intrigued...but always in awe.” —Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered

Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction, including The middle stories and Ticknor; and an essay collection written with Misha Glouberman, The Chairs Are Where the People Go. Her writing has been translated into ten languages and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, McSweeney's, n+1, The Guardian, and other places. She works as interviews editor at The Believer magazine and lives in Toronto.

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A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium—a compulsive read that's like "spending a day with your new best friend" (Bookforum)

Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twentysomething playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close—sometimes too close—observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life.

Using transcribed conversations, real emails, plus heavy doses of fiction, the brilliant and always innovative Sheila Heti crafts a work that is part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy confessional. It's a totally shameless and dynamic exploration into the way we live now, which breathes fresh wisdom into the eternal questions: What is the sincerest way to love? What kind of person should you be?

About the Author

Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction, including The Middle Stories and Ticknor; and an essay collection written with Misha Glouberman, The Chairs Are Where the People Go. Her writing has been translated into ten languages and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, McSweeney's, n+1, The Guardian, and other places. She works as interviews editor at The Believer magazine and lives in Toronto.

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Description “Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of.”—David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review “Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy.”—San Francisco Chronicle A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year A raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friendship, sex, and love in the new millennium—a compulsive read that's like "spending a day with your new best friend" (Bookforum) By turns loved and reviled upon its U.S. publication, Sheila Heti’s “breakthrough novel” (Chris Kraus, Los Angeles Review of Books) is an unabashedly honest and hilarious tour through the unknowable pieces of one woman’s heart and mind. Part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part vivid exploration of the artistic and sexual impulse, How should a person be? earned Heti comparisons to Henry Miller, Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, and Flaubert, while shocking and exciting readers with its raw, urgent depiction of female friendship and of the shape of our lives now. Irreverent, brilliant, and completely original, Heti challenges, questions, frustrates, and entertains in equal measure. With urgency and candor she asks: What is the most noble way to love? What kind of person should you be? About the Author Sheila Heti is the author of several books of fiction, including The Middle Stories and Ticknor; and an essay collection written with Misha Glouberman, The Chairs Are Where the People Go. Her writing has been translated into ten languages and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, McSweeney's, n+1, The Guardian, and other places. She works as interviews editor at The Believer magazine and lives in Toronto. Praise for How should a person be?… A New York Times Notable Book of 2012 “Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of.”—David Haglund, The New York Times Book Review “Brutally honest and stylistically inventive, cerebral, and sexy.”—San Francisco Chronicle “One of the bravest, strangest, most original novels I’ve read this year.”—Christopher Boucher, The Boston Globe “A vital and funny picture of the excitements and longueurs of trying to be a young creator in a free, late-capitalist Western city.”—James Wood, The New Yorker “A book that risks everything...Complex, artfully messy, and hilarious.”—Miranda July “A really amazing metafiction-meets-nonfiction novel.”—Lena Dunham "It is easy to see why a book on the anxiety of celebrity has turned the author into one herself."—The Economist "A seriously strange but funny plunge into the quest for authenticity."—Margaret Atwood “Boldly original...Gorgeously rendered.”—NPR “Bawdy, idiosyncratic...The title makes me quake with envy. All good books should be called just that.”—Chad Harbach "A significant cultural artifact."—LA Review of Books "Original...hilarious...Part confessional, part play, part novel, and more—it’s one wild ride...Think HBO’S Girls in book form." —Marie Claire “How should a person be? teeters between youthful pretension and irony in ways that are as old as Flaubert’s Sentimental Education...but Ms. Heti manages to give Sheila’s struggle a contemporary and particular feel...How should a person be? reveals a talented young voice of a still inchoate generation.”—Kay Hymowitz, The Wall Street Journal “I read this eccentric book in one sitting, amazed, disgusted, intrigued, sometimes titillated I’ll admit to that, but always in awe of this new Toronto writer who seems to be channeling Henry Miller one minute and Joan Didion the next. Heti’s book is pretty ugly fiction, accent on the pretty.”—Alan Cheuse, NPR’s All Things Considered “Heti’s craft never fails…Novels are supposed to grab one’s attention, and Heti’s wonderfully baggy, honest and affecting book does exactly that.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune “Not the kind of book that comes along often. It’s highly quotable, funny, shocking, anxiety-inducing and, finally, inspiring… It is undeniably of the moment, a blueprint of how to be lost in the Internet Age.”—Thought Catalog “Heti knows what she’s doing—much of the pleasure of How should a person be? comes from watching her control the norms she’s subverting.”—Michelle Dean, Slate "A breakthrough novel...Just as Mary McCarthy’s The Company She Keeps (written at the same age) was an explosive and thrilling rejoinder to the serious, male coming-of-age saga exemplified during her era by Sartre’s The Age of Reason, Heti’s book exuberantly appropriates the same, otherwise tired genre to encompass female experience. How should a person be?’s deft, picaresque construction, which lightly-but-devastatingly parodies the mores of Toronto’s art scene, has more in common with Don Quixote than with Lena Dunham’s HBO series “Girls” or the fatuous blogs and social media it will, due to its use of constructed reality, inevitably be compared with…Like Kathy Acker, Heti is a brilliant, original thinker and an engaging writer. "—Chris Kraus, LA Review of Books “If you're not already reading Sheila Heti's second novel How should a person be?, you should be. Heti's rousing, unapologetically messy, beautifully written, insightful and provocative book explores the frustrations and rewards of female friendship, and of trying to make art as a young woman in the 21st century...Heti is doing something very exciting within the form of the novel.” —Jezebel “Heti excels at developing a cast of engaging, colorful and flawed characters.”—Willamette Week “Enlightening, profoundly intelligent, and charming to read....It reflects life in its incredible humor—and in some of its weird bits that might be muddled or unclear...with anxiety, hilarity and lots of great conversation.”—Interview Magazine “There are no convenient epiphanies in Sheila Heti’s newest book How should a person be? Instead there are several intertwined, grinding and brilliantly uncomfortable ones that require the reader to shed a few dozen layers in the service of self-discovery...She may depart from broad harbors, but she is an analytic zealot, never imparting trite one-liners or excusing herself. Reading her is an act of participation, discomfort and joy.”—SF Weekly “Lena Dunham loves this novel…A fresh spin on friendship, art, sex, and philosophy in five acts. And the prose, often taking the form of a numbered list, is always engaging.”—Daily Candy “Heti creates one of the most personable antiheroes ever...Her tone can be earnest and eager to please, flippant and crass, terribly lucid and darkly funny...Her tortured self-deprecation can read a little like Violette Leduc’s, and her poetic bluntness sometimes reminds me of Eileen Myles, but these authors come to mind mostly because, like Heti, they have written about women with unusual detail and feeling. Heti truly has a startling voice all her own, and a fresh take on fiction and autobiography’s overlap.”—Bookforum “Oh crap. I don’t know how to begin talking about Sheila Heti or how good she is. People will say How should a person be? is reminiscent of Patti Smith’s Just Kids or Ann Patchett’s Truth & Beauty and both of these things will be true. But I am still reeling from the originality of this novel. There are passages here so striking, to read them is to be punched in the heart.”—Sloane Crosley, author of How Did You Get This Number "The book’s form is fluid and unpredictable… and the architecture gives the prose a circular, easy feeling, even though Heti is taking a hard look at what makes life meaningful and how one doesn’t end up loveless and lost. It is book peopled by twentysomethings but works easily as a manual for anyone who happens to have run into a spiritual wall."—Sasha Frere-Jones, The Paris Review "Utterly beguiling: blunt, charming, funny, and smart. Heti subtly weaves together ideas about sex, femininity and artistic ambition. Reading this genre-defying book was pure pleasure."—David Shields, author of Reality Hunger "An unforgettable book: intellectually exacting, unsettling in its fragility, bodily as anything painted by Freud, experimental yet crafted as hell, and yes, very funny."—The National Post "Sheila Heti’s novel-from-life, How should a person be?, was published in Canada in 2010, but won’t be out in the US until next June. Watch for it – it’s great." —Chad Harbach, author of The Art of Fielding

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Wednesday, June 26, 7:30 PM Sheila Heti presents How should a person be? In conversation with Kenneth Goldsmith Sheila Heti, interviews editor at The Believer magazine and author of several previous works of fiction, received high critical acclaim for her book How should a person be?, and Greenlight hosts a conversation about the book to celebrate the paperback release. Part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy exploration of the artistic impulse, How should a person be? shocked and excited critics and readers with its raw, urgent depiction of female friendships and the shape of our lives right now. Heti discusses her work with friend and poet Kenneth Goldsmith, Poet Laureate of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and author of eleven books of poetry.

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