Summary: February 20, 2013 12:30 p.m. Sheila Heti reads from her book How Should a Person Be? in front of Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon on the fifth floor. Sheila Heti is the author of five books, including the story collection The Middle Stories, the novel Ticknor, and the children’s book We Need a Horse. With Misha Glouberman, she wrote The Chairs Are Where the People Go, a book of “conversational philosopy” that The New Yorker chose as a Best Book of 2011. Last year, she published How Should a Person Be? A Novel from Life, which The New York Times Book Review called an “odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable book...unlike any other novel I can think of.” Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The London Review of Books, n+1, McSweeney’s, Bookforum, and others. She is currently teaching a master class at Columbia called What Is Character? She is the interviews editor at The Believer and has contributed many interviews with writers and artists to the magazine. As part of Kenneth Goldsmith's Poet Laureate program, he invites renowned writers to choose works in MoMA's collection, develop a response, and then select a space in the Museum galleries where they will perform the resulting readings and texts on Wednesdays. On selected Fridays, Goldsmith himself will contribute readings in the galleries. Visitors can meet the writers directly in their selected gallery. This program is a part of MoMA's Artists Experiment initiative.
