"Heti has cited “The Hills,” the bygone MTV show about young people in Los Angeles, as one of the primary influences on “How Should a Person Be?” She tried to make Margaux and Sheila more like the girls on that show “than characters in a book,” she told one interviewer, and, indeed, the yellow-dress incident might have fit right into the series. More broadly, though, the novel shares with much reality television a kind of episodic aimlessness, and a focus on young, self-involved characters who spend a lot of time thinking about how they look to other people."
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‘How Should a Person Be?’ by Sheila Heti - NYTimes.com
This is a great review/I loved this book and want to talk about it/ I really take the influence of The Hills 100% seriously/ it’s like she distilled everything that was profound about that show (and some other stuff).
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