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The Audio Book Club: How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

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Arts

3.8546 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2012

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Slate critics Dan Kois, Meghan O’Rourke, and David Haglund discuss Sheila Heti’s polarizing novel about life and art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.6

welcome to the slate audio book club and our discussion of How Should a Person Be, a novel from Life by Sheila Hetty.

0:44.7

I'm Dan Cois, editor of the Slate Book Review, and I'm here in Slate's DC Recording Studio.

0:50.0

Joining me from New York is Megan O'Rourke, a Slate cultural critic.

0:53.7

Hi, Megan.

0:54.3

Hi, Dan. Also in New York is David Hagelinke, a Slate cultural critic. Hi, Megan. Hi, Dan.

0:55.1

Also in New York is David Hagelin, Slate's broadweed editor.

0:58.0

Hi, David.

0:58.7

Hi, Dan.

0:59.4

So as in all our audiobook clubs, we recommend that you, the listener, listen to us after you read the book.

1:05.8

Although in the case of this book, there is not so much to spoil in the traditional sense.

1:10.2

How Should a Person Be is written by

1:12.4

Toronto writer Sheila Hetty, and it follows a Toronto writer named Sheila as she drinks, talks,

1:19.6

worries, takes drugs, fails to write a play, and tries to work out that titular question,

1:25.9

how should a person be?

1:31.2

How is she to be a woman and an artist and a person in the modern world?

1:34.5

And maybe even more important than those questions, how is she to be a friend?

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