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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment

The Man From Out of Town by Sheila Heti

Ten years after Dave Eggers founded McSweeney's literary quarterly, Nick Hornby and Eli Horowitz have brought together some of the highlights appearing in the journal over the last decade.

Here Sheila Heti reads her contribution to the anthology – a shocking story of a man's search for a "nice girl to spend good times with" in a strange town.

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