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Sheila Heti
Sheila Heti on the Profound Influence of Jane Bowles on Her Writing—and Life
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| August 25, 2025
The Annotated Nightstand: What Chloe Caldwell Is Reading Now, and Next
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| August 7, 2025
Talk Fiction: Adelaide Faith on Turning an Obsession with Her Therapist into a Novel
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| May 19, 2025
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| March 27, 2025
Just a Little Blip: A Conversation with Sheila Heti
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Beyond the Anthropocentric: When Plants Become Literary Characters
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From Eve Babitz to Raven Leilani, Readings on Solipsistic, Transformative Love
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| March 2, 2022
Sheila Heti on Feeling Estranged from the Facts of Existence
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| February 17, 2022
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