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Sheila Heti
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Ross Simonini and I will be hosting this event at the New York Public Library on Saturday May, 21, at 1 pm. Please come if you're around!
It will be a panel discussion on the art of the interview, with Dick Cavett, Lorin Stein of The Paris Review, Kenneth Goldsmith, editor of The Andy Warhol Interviews, and New York Times and Playboy interviewer, Claudia Dreifus.
This will be followed by a presen... read more »
It will be a panel discussion on the art of the interview, with Dick Cavett, Lorin Stein of The Paris Review, Kenneth Goldsmith, editor of The Andy Warhol Interviews, and New York Times and Playboy interviewer, Claudia Dreifus.
This will be followed by a presen... read more »
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The Middle Stories
   3.64 avg rating — 158 ratings
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2001
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How Should a Person Be?
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2010
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Ticknor: A Novel
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2005
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We Need a Horse
by Sheila Heti (Goodreads Author), Clare Rojas 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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2011
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The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City
by Misha Glouberman (Goodreads Author), Sheila Heti (Goodreads Author) 3.38 avg rating — 186 ratings
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2011
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Pear Noir! (#5)
by Daniel Casebeer , Michael Kimball, Sarah Bridgins 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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2011
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n+1, Number Ten: Self-Improvement
by Marco Roth, Nikil Saval, Mark Greif 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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2010
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The United States of McSweeney's: Ten Years of Lucky Mistakes and Accidental Classics
by Nick Hornby , Eli Horowitz , K. Kvashay-Boyle 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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2009
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The Coming Envelope: Issue 1 Summer 2010
by Malcom Sutton , Jacob Wren (Goodreads Author), Sheila Heti (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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2010
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Pistol Vol. 1, No. 1
by David Bradford, Elyse Friedman, Sheila Heti (Goodreads Author) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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2008
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How Should a Person Be? (Literature & Fiction)
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This is the prologue from How Should a Person Be?, my third book, a novel which has been published in Canada and will be published in the US in Summer 2010, though Americans can order it from www.anansi.ca (the Canadian publisher).
Mermaid in a Jar (Literature & Fiction)
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This story is from my first book, the story collection, The Middle Stories. This is the complete story.
Why Go Out? (Select)
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updated Jun 06, 2011 08:41am
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This is an essay I delivered at Trampoline Hall lecture in New York in 2006, at the launch of my second book, Ticknor.
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location: High Park Amphitheatre, High Park, Toronto, Canada description: Misha Glouberman and I will be reading from The Chairs Are Where the People Go at the final edition ever of the Scream In High Park. The other readers include the exciting and talented Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts, Christian Bök and Darren Wershler, Margaret Christakos, Dani Couture, Aisha Sasha John, Shawn Micaleff, Alisha Piercy, Angela Szczepaniak, Hugh Thomas, Nick Thran, and Mark Truscott. |
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| Bookish: 16June10 | 14 | 21 | Jun 17, 2010 06:08am | |
| CBC Books: Heti, Sheila | 1 | 6 | Mar 30, 2011 04:01pm | |
| Bookish: 29May2011 | 15 | 27 | May 29, 2011 05:35pm |
