I'm almost embarrassed to answer because it was a very primitive process! And it also exhibits how neurotic I am about organizing information…
For each of her books, I googled something like "sheila heti pure colour review" or "sheila heti pure colour interview" and then downloaded many of the articles as PDFs so I could highlight them an…
I'm almost embarrassed to answer because it was a very primitive process! And it also exhibits how neurotic I am about organizing information…
For each of her books, I googled something like "sheila heti pure colour review" or "sheila heti pure colour interview" and then downloaded many of the articles as PDFs so I could highlight them and take notes. I also went through various websites (the LRB, NYRB, the Paris Review, Bookforum, NYT, the New Yorker, the Guardian, etc) and just searched "sheila heti" and saved those as well.
I organize most of my reading in Zotero—my folder structure for the review looked something like
📁 202401 Sheila Heti for ArtReview
↪ 📁 2010 How Should a Person Be
↪ ↪ 📁 Reviews
↪ ↪ 📁 Interviews
↪ 📁 2018 Motherhood
↪ ↪ 📁 Reviews
↪ ↪ 📁 Interviews
and then I also had folders for
↪ 📁 Other writing by Heti
↪ 📁 Reviews of autofiction as genre
↪ 📁 Books Heti likes
But some of the other essays were recommended to me—like the Lorentzen essay in Bookforum—and that was incredibly, incredibly helpful
I'm almost embarrassed to answer because it was a very primitive process! And it also exhibits how neurotic I am about organizing information…
For each of her books, I googled something like "sheila heti pure colour review" or "sheila heti pure colour interview" and then downloaded many of the articles as PDFs so I could highlight them and take notes. I also went through various websites (the LRB, NYRB, the Paris Review, Bookforum, NYT, the New Yorker, the Guardian, etc) and just searched "sheila heti" and saved those as well.
I organize most of my reading in Zotero—my folder structure for the review looked something like
📁 202401 Sheila Heti for ArtReview
↪ 📁 2010 How Should a Person Be
↪ ↪ 📁 Reviews
↪ ↪ 📁 Interviews
↪ 📁 2018 Motherhood
↪ ↪ 📁 Reviews
↪ ↪ 📁 Interviews
and then I also had folders for
↪ 📁 Other writing by Heti
↪ 📁 Reviews of autofiction as genre
↪ 📁 Books Heti likes
But some of the other essays were recommended to me—like the Lorentzen essay in Bookforum—and that was incredibly, incredibly helpful
haha no this is exactly what i was looking for! and i love the neuroticism