In basic terms, this is a diary subjected to a processual restraint: ten years of the author’s ‘thoughts’ rearranged alphabetically. Unlike many conceptual writing pieces (I’m thinking of some of the texts in Kenneth Goldsmith and Craig Dworkin’s marvellous Against Expression: an anthology of conceptual writing, which I use with my first year students) Sheila Heti’s … Continue reading Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti (Fitzcarraldo Editions)