ALPHABETICAL DIARIES - Sheila Heti (Fitzcarraldo Editions) magazine Jenny Nachtigal

Jenny Nachtigal

All Said and Done and A Very Easy Death

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ALPHABETICAL DIARIES - Sheila Heti (Fitzcarraldo Editions) magazine Jenny NachtigalSheila Heti collected half a million words from a decade's worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries. "Heti's books aim to be vessels for the transformation of reader and writer. She has spoken of writing a book that would be like a Richard Serra sculpture,