Guest
Sheila Heti, Author of The Middle Stories, Ticknor, How Should a Person Be?, co-author of The Chairs Are Where the People Go. Interviews editor at The Believer.
People mentioned
Kathryn Borel, Lena Dunham, Gary Shteyngart, Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro
Topics discussed
If you should read an author’s book before interviewing them, the difference between a novel “from life” and journalism, if GIRLS is porn without the sex, America’s literary hype machine, if grants make CanLit better or worse, how private school made Sheila not care about how she is perceived in Canada.
