![]() ![]() Entertainment Weekly took the logical next step by having Lena Dunham review the book. “Think HBO’s Girls in book form,” Marie Claire instructed. Heti suggested in interviews that this blurring of the line between fiction and reportage was partly inspired by the MTV quasi-reality show The Hills : “It was like, these girls are friends, and somebody’s editing their lives in some way.… What if we cast ourselves as those girls have been cast?” Many reviewers took this idea literally, treating the book less as literature than as a prose equivalent of a TV show. Subtitled A Novel From Life, it is an apparently autobiographical story about a young writer in Toronto named Sheila and her friend Margaux, based on the painter Margaux Williamson. When Sheila Heti’s novel How Should a Person Be? was published in 2010, it seemed for a moment that literary fiction might once again be the best place to take the pulse of the culture. ![]()
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