Episode 37: Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso
Rachel Zucker talks with Sheila Heti and Sarah Manguso about literary friendship, Sarah’s two recent books, Sheila’s manuscript in progress, maternal ambivalence, uncertainty, sacrifice of self, envy, curiosity, being a daughter, attachment and unattachment, shame, the sickening state of wondering whether or not to have children, abandonment, money, the things we cannot choose, choosing intolerable feelings, whiteness, class, the poetics of motherhood, purity, polluted writing, and motherhood as a sexuality category.
Books by Sheila Heti
Motherhood (Henry Holt & Co., 2018)
All Our Happy Days Are Stupid (McSweeney’s Publishing, 2015)
Women in Clothes (Blue Rider Press, 2014), edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanna Shapton
The Middle Stories (McSweeney’s Publishing, 2012)
How Should a Person Be? (Henry Holt & Co., 2012)
We Need A Horse (Mcsweeney’s McMullens, 2011)
The Chairs Are Where the People Go (FSG, 2011)
Ticknor (FSG, 2006)
Books by Sarah Manguso
Prose
300 Arguments (Graywolf, 2017)
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (Graywolf, 2015)
The Guardians: An Elegy (FSG, 2012)
The Two Kinds of Decay (FSG, 2008)
Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (McSweeney's Books, 2007)
Poetry
Siste Viator (Four Way Books, 2006)
The Captain Lands in Paradise (Alice James Books, 2002)
Other Books, Writers & Artists Mentioned in the Episode
Carrot Top by Jules Renard (FSG, 1975)
Paradise, Piece by Piece by Molly Peacock (Riverhead, 1998)
100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl (FSG, 2015)
Museum of Accidents by Rachel Zucker (Wave Books, 2009)
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