Alphabetical Diaries
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Narrated by:
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Kate Berlant
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By:
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Sheila Heti
About this listen
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker • A New York Times Critics Top Book of the Year • Named Best Nonfiction of the Year by Literary Hub and Electric Literature • One of The Los Angeles Times's 15 Best Books of the Year • One of The New Statesman's 20 Best Books of the Year
Sheila Heti collected 500,000 words from a decade's worth of journals, put the sentences in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She cut and cut and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.
Critic reviews
ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES'S 15 BEST BOOKS OF 2024
“Powerful and intimate. . . . [Alphabetical Diaries] is made up of Heti’s frank, funny, filthy, and casually philosophical diaries, ten years of them. . . . Heti has written a small classic; she has shot a lasting arrow into the hide of the memoir form. . . . A profound experience.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“[Alphabetical Diaries] burrows so deeply into a single psyche that it transcends the personal, as if emerging from one collective, neurotic consciousness. . . . The [result] is exhilarating: both intimate and withholding, repetitive and generative. . . . A monologue that is meditative, propulsive and yet yearning, like a chant, a mantra or a prayer.’” —The New Statesman
“Profound. We see [Heti’s] fixations, her questions about life, love, writing and making a home in the world, weave in and out of her mind for a decade, with the constancy of the moon crossing the night sky. . . . It’s hypnotically satisfying. . . . Alphabetical Diaries beautifully expands and complements Heti’s larger, moral project.” —The Globe and Mail