Before the release of 'Alphabetical Diaries,' Sheila Heti told us how she turned her private journals into an exhilarating, alphabetized book.
. “A writer is just one person under the stars,” begins the subsequent sentence, “one person in a universe, writing about a whole entire universe.
NEVINS: I’m curious how you distinguish editing and writing, particularly with a project like this, which seems more like pruning a tree than growing one from soil.think there’s a difference. It’s funny, I did an event with Rachel Kushner and this came up. We realized as we were talking that we both meant something different by writing. She meant writing and editing whereas, for me, I just meant putting the words down for the first time and editing as something different.
NEVINS: I’m curious how these journal entries existed at the time of their conception. Were they more conventional chunks of narrative text that you then plucked certain sentences from? NEVINS: Which often resulted in some very funny joke constructions, by the way. Like, “Mom said she can’t really respect someone who hasn’t worked hard and made something of themselves. Mom said, s.” The cadence of it reminded me of my own Boomer parents. Did you enjoy the process of stitching jokes together?
NEVINS: There are a few serendipitous moments where these diaries seem to refer to the book in hand. For instance, you write, “It would be nice to make a book of all the little injunctions you have towards yourself.
NEVINS: I think those choices are crucial to the sort of internal rhythms of the book. I almost experienced it like you might the tracks on an album, understanding each chapter as variations on a form.
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