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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. Today, reinventing fiction.

What I try to do is to get away from all the concepts we have. The concept of identity, the concept of quality, the concept of what a novel is, the concept of what a day looks like, you know.

I think what has always interested me is the way language can tickle parts of our imagination

and bring a new kind of vibrancy and awareness to our lives that goes beyond what can actually be displayed on any kind of screen.

Every day, every day I'm at the book.

Are you tired of the old way of fiction?

Is page after printed page of text just not doing it for you anymore?

You could try Japanese cell phone novels, entire books, written on a mobile in text messages.

Or how about a Twitter story? Writers are experimenting with all kinds of new forms today. For example,

take Sheila Hetty.

She's a Canadian writer, author of a new novel called How Should a Person Be?

And it's fiction, but the characters are real people.

They seem to be Sheila herself and her friends.

Some of their dialogue is from actual conversations that she transcribed.

So what is this thing?

Is it an autobiographical novel, a fictional memoir, or some strange new hybrid of

metafiction and nonfiction?

I always just thought of it as a novel.

When people started using the words autobiographical and memoir, it was kind of a surprise to me.

But in fact, writing the book, I had thought of it as a novel.

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