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Sheila Heti collected half a million words from a decade’s worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.

"Berlant adds that extra pizazz, so you really get a window into the creative mind as it shifts quickly from moments of despair to lightbulbs of insight to incidents of sexual desire to the recollection of totally random literary facts."—Vulture on Alphabetical Diaries "Heti's candid...

A New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Literary Hub Electric Literature The Los Angeles Times The New Statesman Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet...