In conversation with Sheila Heti (or: How Should a Writer Be?)

Sheila Heti's new novel 'Motherhood' (Henry Holt/Harvill Secker, 2018) is a formally inventive, deeply personal exploration of a woman's decision about whether to have children. It builds on the success of her 'novel from life', 'How Should a Person Be?' and confirms her as one of the most interesting and exciting authors of the 21st century. In our June 2018 episode, Juliet talks to Sheila about her new book and her life in writing. WORKS BY SHEILA HETI The Middle Stories (2001) Ticknor: A Novel (2005) How Should a Person Be? (2010) The Chairs are Where the People Go (2011) We Need a Horse (2011) Women in Clothes (2014, co-edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton) All Our Happy Days are Stupid (2015) Motherhood (2018) Kathy Acker Thomas Bernhard Cool Runnings (dir. Jon Turteltaub, 1993) Rachel Cusk Dave Eggers 'The Hills' (TV series, 2006-10) JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) JULIET JACQUES, 'The Woman in the Portrait' Karl Ove Knausgaard CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997) Ben Lerner Herman Melville Henry Miller Joe Orton Willam H. Prescott - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Prescott NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 'The Age of Suspicion' (1963) - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/nathalie-sarraute/ George Ticknor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ticknor Margaux Williamson - http://www.margauxwilliamson.com/