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Sheila Heti is in Denver to teach, and to interview Rachel for The Paris Review. Guest appearance from her husband Siemon.

Recorded June 10, 2019.

It’s been only two and a half years since the last episode! Last night I walked to my friend Margaux Williamson’s house. We talked outside her studio in the rain, and then inside her studio where the walls were covered with nearly-finished and recently finished paintings. We discuss the catalogue essay that Ben Lerner wrote for her recent show at the McMichael Gallery outside Toronto, and we talk about each other’s defence mechanisms a bit. (When Margaux says ”married,” she means ”in a committed relationship.”)

Recorded April 2022

Sheila can’t sleep.

Recorded December 7, 2020.

After a five-year hiatus, my brother David and I have recorded a new episode. Well worth the five-year wait!! We discuss emailing, friendships, and family members.

Recorded October 26, 2020.

Sheila Heti wanders alone around Stockholm one night, early in October, the week they did not give out the Nobel Prize for Literature. She is on a promotional visit to promote the Swedish edition of Motherhood. After wandering around, she returns to her hotel. Here is the interview Sheila did with Rachel Cusk which is mentioned in this episode. It is on the podcast Canadaland: http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/sheila-heti-and-rachel-cusk-on-why-memoir-is-a-dead-end/ You can email the show at: deskofsheilaheti@gmail.com Please note that the last version of Episode 4 had a number of errors. This is the corrected show.

Recorded October 12, 2018.

My friend Kathryn told me not to put this one up, because it made me seem like I was too satisfied with my art, whereas in fact I am very critical and I never stop trying to make it better. I have decided to put this episode up because the play never did get produced, this tiny reading was the only really success that the play had, and so it makes sense in retrospect to have been so happy and gratified by it, since an audience of about six or seven (which is what we had) was about as big an audience as my play (it appears) deserved.

Recorded August 21, 2018.