{"product_id":"fan-mail-a-guide-to-what-we-love-loathe-and-mourn-paperback-1","title":"Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJason Guriel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 294\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 23, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47685208965341,"sku":"9781550656923","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/qKtMOujTMF9781550656923_667b33b5-6612-4d2a-8d71-06d3887e099f.webp?v=1774007941","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/fan-mail-a-guide-to-what-we-love-loathe-and-mourn-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}