Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti. Faber & Faber, $14 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-86547-945-6
The city in question is Toronto, where Glouberman lives and plies his trades as instructor in improvisation and charades, and artistic impresario. These plainspoken, idiosyncratic essays, transcribed by Heti, a friend and fellow organizer, of their...
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Sheila Heti, Author . Farrar Straus & Giroux $18 (119p) ISBN 978-0-374-27754-3
The rancorous, interminable friendship between a Great Man and his envious, self-pitying biographer drives this cleverly coiled narrative by Canadian author Heti (The Middle Stories
). As Heti notes, she has based this slender, first-person work on...
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Sheila Heti. Holt, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9472-5
With a quirky mixture of e-mails, transcribed conversations, and prose, frequent Believer contributor Heti (2004’s The Middle Stories) examines her titular question by emphasizing that, like life itself, the story of protagonist Sheila; her...
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Sheila Heti, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton & 639 others. Penguin/Blue Rider, $30 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-399-16656-3
Thoughtfully crafted and visually entertaining, this collection, edited by Heti (How Should A Person Be?), Julavits (The Vanishers), and Shapton (Swimming Studies), uses personal reflections from 642 contributors to examine women’s relationship with
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Sheila Heti, illus. by Clare Rojas. McSweeney's McMullens, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-936365-40-1
In this subtle existential meditation, newcomer Heti imagines a dreamlike landscape in which big questions are gently asked, and just as gently answered. "What is the reason I was made a horse and not some other animal?" a horse asks a bright light...
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Sheila Heti. Holt, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-1-627-79077-2
The subject of the new novel from Heti (How Should a Person Be?) is neither birth nor child-rearing, but the question of whether to want a child, which the unnamed narrator calls “the greatest secret I keep from myself.” To find the answer, she...
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Sheila Heti. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-60394-6
Heti (How Should a Person Be?) delivers an underwhelming fable, a sort of Generation X Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Here, God has created three kinds of people: bird, fish, and bear. Birds are ambitious, fish are socially minded, and bears love with
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Sheila Heti. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-61078-4
In this arresting literary experiment, Canadian novelist and playwright Heti (Pure Colour) takes sentences from 10 years of her personal journal entries and rearranges them in alphabetical order. “Don’t forget that although you aren’t telling a...
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Sheila Heti, illus. by Esmé Shapiro. Tundra, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7352-6881-4
Three creatures—“a little white bunny, a bunny the color of toast, and a rose-and-buttercream colored cat”—live in a garden filled with delicate flowers and grasses. But death is present, too. The toast-colored bunny dies quietly, a page turn into...
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