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Sheila Heti and Tao Lin In Conversation

Sheila Heti & Tao Lin

Sheila Heti and Tao Lin discuss writing about motherhood and psychedelics, what changes when you begin to write under contract, and narrative forms that mimic the menstrual cycle.

Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?. ‘Pure Colour’ is an excerpt from her novel of the same title, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US, Harvill Secker in the UK and Knopf in Canada. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Harper’s, the New York Times, n+1and the London Review of Books.

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Tao Lin

Tao Lin is the author of ten books of prose and poetry, including the novels Leave Society and Taipei and the memoir Trip. He edits Muumuu House and lives in Hawaii. Visit his website at taolin.us.

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