When Sheila Heti, the author of How Should a Person Be?, was a Sassy-reading teenager in Toronto, she was commissioned to edit an anthology of young women’s writing. She was discovered by Naomi Wolf, whose 1991 book The Beauty Myth was one of Heti’s first introductions to feminism, and whom she had met at a lecture. During the Q&A session afterward, Heti had told Wolf about how her school’s authorities confiscated her zine, Iron Maiden, and then given Wolf an envelope containing copies of the D.I.Y. publication. Soon after, Wolf’s publisher, Random House, invited Heti to come in for a meeting. For a year and a half, Heti solicited writing and art from young women across North America, exchanging her newest zine, Brillantine (produced when was she was 18 and republished here in its entirety in our accompanying slideshow with Heti’s permission), for their submissions, only to have the book’s first draft rejected because the material was too controversial.
Via: Sheila Hetis Unpublishable Zines Find Home in NYUs Riot Grrrl Library
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