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

Guriel, Jason

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1550656929 ISBN 13 : 9781550656923

Editeur : Vehicule Press, 2025

Synopsis

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 culture.

The book moves through the phases of Guriel's devotion with a kind of graceful intensity. He revels in obscure corners of the canon and forgotten pop-culture moments. Guriel also plays the anti-booster, taking on what he sees as overhyped or misguided phenomena, from Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize to the self-indulgent quirks of contemporary literary criticism. And he mourns the loss of both singular artists and a pre-internet world, where obsessions flourished in private rather than in algorithm-driven feeds.

But Fan Mail is also about the act of writing itself: Guriel's deep engagement with poetry and criticism reveals a mind fascinated by language, metaphor, and form. His prose is crisp, aphoristic, at times acerbic, but always engaged, arguing that fandom-- whether ecstatic or skeptical-- is an essential part of artistic life. More than a collection of essays, Fan Mail is a love letter to the passions that shape us, for better or worse.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jason Guriel is the author of On Browsing, Forgotten Work, and other books. He lives in Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vehicule Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1550656929
• ISBN 13: 9781550656923
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 294
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• Personne responsable: non disponible