Cover reveal: the new and expanded paperback edition of Sheila Heti’s How Should A Person Be?

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We are very excited to bring you a paperback edition featuring new and expanded content of Sheila Heti’s How Should A Person Be?,  a brilliant portrayal of finding a beautiful life by one of Canada’s most exciting literary talents.

Available in June 2012, this beautiful new edition will coincide with the publication of the American edition, published Henry Holt & Co. Publishers Weekly has just called it: “Original, contemplative, and often tangential, this is an unorthodox compilation of colorful characters, friendship, and sex.” Stay tuned for more reviews and coverage!

In the meantime, you can:
> Read an excerpt on our website (click on the “Sample Chapter” link in the column on the right)
> Follow Sheila Heti on Twitter

What do you think of the new cover? Leave us a comment!

Author picks for the holidays: Mariko Tamaki recommends THE MIDDLE STORIES

The book:

The Middle Stories, by Sheila Heti
ISBN: 978-0-88784-677-9 * $14.95

The recommender:

Mariko Tamaki, author of Skim

Mariko says:

My holiday recommend is The Middle Stories, by author Sheila Heti, also the brain behind How Should a Person Be? (which I just bought). The Middle Stories is yet another reason to be a bit jealous of a mind like Heti’s, from which pours all manner of wonderful articulate strangeness. People are always describing Heti and her work as a mix; I (personally) I think of her as part Wes Anderson, part Aesop, and a little Timothy Findley. This book is for any fan of magical realism and short short fiction (each story is about a two pages long). Buy it for the impossible-to-buy-for reader, but make sure they don’t already have a copy first.

MARIKO TAMAKI is a Toronto-based writer and performer — “a talented writer getting better and better,” says NOW Magazine. She is the author of Cover Me, True Lies: A Book of Bad Advice, Fake ID, and Emiko Superstar, illustrated by indie comics legend Steve Rolston. Follow Mariko on Twitter @marikotamaki.