Day 25: Sheila Heti, Oulipo, and the Tenderness of the Found Rough Draft

ink wash on paper, photographed by Jose A. Bernat Bacete

I’m enamored of the new Sheila Heti series that has just begun in The New York Times. They’re calling it a “newsletter,” another legacy publication getting in on the Substack game, but really it’s a ten-part Oulipian autofiction serial. Here’s Heti, explaining:

“A little more than 10 years ago, I be…