Sheila Heti, In Conversation with Herself
The last agent I met with was a white woman my age. We showed up wearing the same blazer, and after we spent a few minutes acknowledging that fact I found it was impossible to talk about my literary aspirations without feeling self-conscious. She told me she thought I could market my book in the style of Alain de Botton’s The Architecture of Happin... See more
But control is just one effect, and in some ways the canniest — nothing else so efficiently earns the reader’s trust and can lull her into sleepy credulity. “Clarity” is no different; is there better camouflage than absolute candor? Ditlevsen confesses and confesses, but it is what she does not say, what she shows us and does not acknowledge — the
... See moreShe used her notes and her writing to confront her demons:
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
I’m at my most courageous on the page because interrogating my feelings with words feels justified and purposeful in the case that it helps someone else understand the mess of the human condition.