Sheila Heti's new novel 'Motherhood' (Henry Holt/Harvill Secker, 2018) is a formally inventive, deeply personal exploration of a woman's decision about whether to have children. It builds on the success of her 'novel from life', 'How Should a Person Be?' and confirms her as one of the most interesting and exciting authors of the 21st century. In our June 2018 episode, Juliet talks to Sheila about her new book and her life in writing.

WORKS BY SHEILA HETI

The Middle Stories (2001)

Ticknor: A Novel (2005)

How Should a Person Be? (2010)

The Chairs are Where the People Go (2011)

We Need a Horse (2011)

Women in Clothes (2014, co-edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton)

All Our Happy Days are Stupid (2015)

Motherhood (2018)

Kathy Acker

Thomas Bernhard

Cool Runnings (dir. Jon Turteltaub, 1993)

Rachel Cusk

Dave Eggers

'The Hills' (TV series, 2006-10)

JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015)

JULIET JACQUES, 'The Woman in the Portrait'

Karl Ove Knausgaard

CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997)

Ben Lerner

Herman Melville

Henry Miller

Joe Orton

Willam H. Prescott - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Prescott

NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 'The Age of Suspicion' (1963) - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/nathalie-sarraute/

George Ticknor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ticknor

Margaux Williamson - http://www.margauxwilliamson.com/