{"product_id":"fan-mail-a-guide-to-what-we-love-loathe-and-mourn-9781550656923","title":"Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason Guriel\u003c\/b\u003e's \u003ci\u003eFan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut \u003ci\u003eFan Mail\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eFan Mail\u003c\/i\u003e is a love letter to the passions that shape us, for better or worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuriel, Jason:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJason Guriel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Browsing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForgotten Work\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books. He lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vehicule Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51861822341394,"sku":"9781550656923","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fb88c464-a2a9-435c-861e-48ddce8e9220.jpg?v=1767784038","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fan-mail-a-guide-to-what-we-love-loathe-and-mourn-9781550656923","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}