“Yeah, this is a crazy life / But you and the six raised me right” – Drake, You & The 6
Wikipedia identifies Sheila Heti, meme author of How Should a Person Be? as a “Canadian woman novelist.” She’s never quite felt like one, though.
“When I was growing up, we read a lot of Canadian literature in school, and it was so rural,” Heti annotates. “It was like every story was about a kid who died in a snowstorm. And in the spring they find his boots. That kind of thing. Or a story about a kid who was ice skating and he fell through the ice. Or, like, there’s a bear, and what happens now that there’s a bear?”
Like Drake, Heti hails from the Six, where they share a synagogue, and where there are not many bears. In her annotated Wiki entry, Heti goes in on literary translators, the tyranny of Wikipedia’s non-diffusing subcategories, and how entering the headspace to write children’s fiction is best achieved by getting drunk.
> Sheila Heti used Genius to annotate her Wikipedia page. Click here to check it out.
