“A writer has to follow their curiosity, first and foremost,” writes Sheila Heti in the opening chapter of her nifty and singular new book, Alphabetical Diaries. “A writer is just one person under the stars,” begins the subsequent sentence, “one person in a universe, writing about a whole entire universe.” One could read these lines as a kind of mission statement, for Heti’s literary preoccupations are indeed great in both magnitude and particularity, impelled by her relentless spirit of inquiry toward questions no less daunting and immense than the one that titles her breakout 2010 novel, How Should a Person Be?
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