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Sheila Heti

Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Motherhood and How Should a Person Be?. ‘Pure Colour’ is an excerpt from her novel of the same title, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US, Harvill Secker in the UK and Knopf in Canada. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. Her writing has been published in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Harper’s, the New York Times, n+1, and the London Review of Books.

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Fiction | Issue 158 padlock
Fiction | Issue 158 padlock

Pure Colour

Sheila Heti

‘She had never seen that colour before. It was the colour of a father dying.’

An excerpt from Sheila Heti’s forthcoming novel.

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Fiction | Issue 145 padlock

Speer

Sheila Heti

‘Every night for three weeks, I sat with Hitler after dinner.’

In Conversation | Issue 145
In Conversation | Issue 145

Sheila Heti and Tao Lin In Conversation

Sheila Heti & Tao Lin

Sheila Heti and Tao Lin discuss writing about motherhood and psychedelics, what changes when you begin to write under contract, and narrative forms that mimic the menstrual cycle.

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