Sheila Heti organized 10 years of her diary entries to bring us deep into her inner world for her latest work 'Alphabetical Diaries,' out Feb. 6.
Not bothered by convention, brilliantly executed, and intelligent each one of Sheila Heti’s books uses its own tactic to answer a central question.
“It's nice to have found a way to put these thoughts in a book,” Heti tells NYLON. “Most books need to hang those themes on plot, or on multiple characters. And there's no real plot in life. So, how do you get those thoughts in a book without plot, in a way that still seems like it's being lived?” Some things just start. There were probably all these thoughts that happened subconsciously beforehand, but one day I found myself alphabetizing my diary, and it just seemed like the most obvious thing to do. I didn’t know where it would lead to or that I would end up working on it for 14 years. I just thought it was a way to pass the time for a while and it could be interesting.
This is the first time it's not a character in the book, though, of course, a character does emerge from the editing. But yes, there's this privacy, because the narrative has been broken up. I was still afraid to have people read it, honestly. To have people who didn't know me read it, in particular.I felt like I didn't know what was being revealed of me. I don't know what kind of person is coming across. Whereas withthere was a character that I was trying to convey.
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