Blurring The Lines Between Fiction And Reality

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Canadian novelist Sheila Heti talks about her new novel, "How Should a Person Be?" It's fiction, but the characters are real people -- they seem to be Sheila herself and her friends.  Some of the dialogue is from actual conversations she transcribed.  So what is this thing -- an autobiographical novel; a fictional memoir? Or some strange new hybrid of metafiction and non-fiction?