Sheila Heti on Talking to Everyone at Once

Consulting the Oracle | Merve Emre, Sheila Heti

In the fall of 2022, I saw the novelist Sheila Heti give a presentation on her conversations with early AI chat bots. Their names were Eliza, Alice, and George, and they had wild, undisciplined opinions about art, selfhood, and God. Talking to them seemed to come naturally to Heti. For several years, she had been […]

Sheila Heti on Talking to Everyone at Once

Welcome to Season Four of The Critic and Her Publics: The Art of the Interview. This season, host Merve Emre talks with professional interviewers of all kinds about how they get the answer they’re looking for, what makes a good question, how do you listen for what’s unsaid, and how hard do you have to push someone before they say something new? Subscribe to The Critic and Her Publics, available wherever you get your podcasts! From the episode: “…