Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn

Jason Guriel’ s Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn is a book about fandom in all its obsessive, contradictory, and deeply personal forms. But more than that, it’ s an inquiry into how love for art— books, music, movies, poetry, comics— shapes not just our tastes but our lives. Guriel, an acclaimed poet and critic, assembles a series of essays that trace his own experiences as a fan, while simultaneously constructing a larger meditation on what it means to be enthralled by ...