Revising the First Draft of the World: On Sheila Heti’s “Pure Colour”
Sheila Heti’s new novel is a tale about grieving during the Anthropocene.
Esmé Hogeveen is a writer and editor based in Toronto. She is a staff writer at Another Gaze and a Film and ArtSeen contributor at The Brooklyn Rail. Her writing on art, film, culture, and aesthetics has appeared in Artforum, Bookforum, The Baffler, BOMB, Frieze, Hazlitt, Hyperallergic, GARAGE, Canadian Art, C Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, and cléo film journal, among other venues. She holds an MA in Critical Theory and Creative Research from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and subsequently studied at Cornell University’s School of Criticism and Theory.
Sheila Heti’s new novel is a tale about grieving during the Anthropocene.
Rooney’s third novel oscillates between the perspectives of two close female friends in their late 20s.