Sheila Heti: How Should a Person be?
Tuesday 19 June, 2012
7pm, $0
Powerhouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn
Sheila Heti combined emails and transcribed conversations with a heavy dose of fiction to create this innovative new novel about a twenty-something playwright dealing with life after a failed marriage.
Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twenty-something playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close—sometimes too close—observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life. Using transcribed conversations, real emails, and heavy doses of fiction, the brilliant and always innovative Sheila Heti crafts a work that is part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy confessional. It's a totally shameless and dynamic exploration into the way we live, which breathes fresh wisdom into the eternal questions: What is the sincerest way to love? What kind of person should you be?
Sheila Heti is a writer and artist. She is the author of several books of fiction, including The Middle Stories and Ticknor, and The Chairs Are Where the People Go, a book of conversational philosophy with Misha Glouberman. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, McSweeney's, n+1, The Guardian, and other places. She works as interviews editor at The Believer and lives in Toronto.
Reeling from a failed marriage, Sheila, a twenty-something playwright, finds herself unsure of how to live and create. When Margaux, a talented painter and free spirit, and Israel, a sexy and depraved artist, enter her life, Sheila hopes that through close—sometimes too close—observation of her new friend, her new lover, and herself, she might regain her footing in art and life. Using transcribed conversations, real emails, and heavy doses of fiction, the brilliant and always innovative Sheila Heti crafts a work that is part literary novel, part self-help manual, and part bawdy confessional. It's a totally shameless and dynamic exploration into the way we live, which breathes fresh wisdom into the eternal questions: What is the sincerest way to love? What kind of person should you be?
Sheila Heti is a writer and artist. She is the author of several books of fiction, including The Middle Stories and Ticknor, and The Chairs Are Where the People Go, a book of conversational philosophy with Misha Glouberman. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, McSweeney's, n+1, The Guardian, and other places. She works as interviews editor at The Believer and lives in Toronto.