How Should a Novel Be? Sheila Heti with Adam Thirlwell
Tuesday 30 April 2013, 7 p.m. · 58 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/4/5/6/9/529654-9-eng-GB/526e72e9cdcdf.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/4/5/6/9/529654-9-eng-GB/526e72e9cdcdf.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/4/5/6/9/529654-9-eng-GB/526e72e9cdcdf.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/4/5/6/9/529654-9-eng-GB/526e72e9cdcdf.jpg 1200w)
Trying to be ugly I think is the way to beauty, instead of trying to be an ideal...
Sheila Heti's strange, raw anti-novel How Should a Person Be? was one of the publishing sensations of 2012, and led James Wood in The New Yorker to advance the opinion that 'this talented writer may well have identified a central dialectic of twenty-first-century postmodern being.'
She was in conversation about writing, life and the future of fiction with the critic and experimental novelist Adam Thirlwell.
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