When author Barbara Gibbon tastes her mother’s Potato Soup recipe, she tastes childhood memories. Childhood is the basis of who we are, the foundation that sets us apart from others. It includes our ...
To write 'Alphabetical Diaries', celebrated author Sheila Heti entered over 10 years and 500,000 words of her diaries into Excel and drastically pared them down, presenting the result in 26 brief ...
It’s important to make something clear from the start: “Alphabetical Diaries,” the new novel from Toronto writer Sheila Heti, is sublime, a truly unique and genuinely affecting reading experience.
Twenty-six straight or squiggly visual signs make possible all our written communication. It’s easy to take the alphabet — or, more properly, our alphabet, the one used by English-speakers and writers ...