Sheila Heti How Should a Person Be? hat

Available again with the kind permission of the author

Sheila Heti (b. 1976) is a Canadian writer. Her writing spans a variety of genres, including plays, short fiction, and novels.

Heti formerly worked as the interviews editor at The Believer and contributed a column on acting to Maisonneuve. She is also the creator of Trampoline Hall, a popular monthly lecture series based in Toronto, at which people speak on subjects outside their areas of expertise. The New Yorker praised the series for "celebrating eccentricity and do-it-yourself inventiveness".

Heti's How Should a Person Be?, her first full-length novel (following the novella Ticknor in 2005 and the short story collection The Middle Stories in 2001), was published in 2010. She describes it as a work of "constructed reality," based on recorded interviews with her friends, particularly the painter Margaux Williamson. The 2012 US reprint appended the subtitle "a novel from life." Part metafictional novel, part self-help manual, and part racy confessional, Heti's unabashedly sincere, funny, and philosophically eccentric inquiry into how to live today was among the first of the recent decade's wave of contemporary autofictional novels. Inspired in part by the earlier example of Chris Kraus' I Love Dick, How Should a Person Be? can also be seen as a precursor to subsequent explorations of millennial young-womanhood and female friendship, such as Lena Dunham's Girls.

This hat employs the typeface used for the first Anansi hardcover edition of How Should a Person Be?, designed by Bill Douglas.

• 100% organic cotton
• Fabric weight: 8 oz/yd² (271 g/m²)
• 3/1 twill
• Unstructured
• 6 panel
• Matching sewn eyelets
• Self-fabric adjustable closure with a brass slider and hidden tuck-in