The Book Show | Sheila Heti - Alphabetical Diaries [encore airing]

February 03, 2025 00:27:27
The Book Show | Sheila Heti - Alphabetical Diaries [encore airing]
The Book Show
The Book Show | Sheila Heti - Alphabetical Diaries [encore airing]

Feb 03 2025 | 00:27:27

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Show Notes

“Alphabetical Diaries” by Sheila Heti contains a decade’s worth of thoughts, arranged in alphabetical order. The book is a chronicle of the self, of the fundamentals and idiosyncrasies of human experience, that plays out thrillingly in the space that Heti has staked out between life and art, reality and fiction.

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