The New Inquiry talks with Sheila Heti about her latest novel How Should a Person Be?, the impulse to record, memory, and how writing can alter “the experience of living.”
“If you’re writing something and it obviously strikes you as false, you can’t write it. And so by writing, you discover what seems true to you. What seems real. It’s a way of thinking through things. I feel like the question of how should a person be, it was a question I took on and emphasized it and really wanted to work to the end of it.”
