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Podcast: Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
Episode: Sheila Heti : How Should A Person Be?
Description: Is How Should a Person Be? a novel, a memoir, a self-help manual, or a book of philosophy? It is all of these things and more.  Host David Naimon talks with Sheila Heti about her new book, which Bookforum dubs âa raw, startling, genre-defying novel of friends, sex, and love in the new millenniumâa compulsive read thatâs like spending a day with your new best friend.â
Canadian writer Sheila Heti is the author of five books, all very different in form and style. She has written a collection of modern fables entitled The Middle Stories, a historical n...