Jason Guriel: Fan Mail, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Fan Mail
- A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn
 
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- Verlag:
 - Vehicule Press, 10/2025
 - Einband:
 - Kartoniert / Broschiert
 - Sprache:
 - Englisch
 - ISBN-13:
 - 9781550656923
 - Artikelnummer:
 - 12458494
 - Umfang:
 - 294 Seiten
 - Gewicht:
 - 181 g
 - Maße:
 - 216 x 140 mm
 - Stärke:
 - 10 mm
 - Erscheinungstermin:
 - 23.10.2025
 - Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache! 
Klappentext
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.