Before the Internet, before the literary world was overrun by online politics, before everything you read — and wrote — had to advance an agenda, there was the solitary person, in a room, losing themselves in the words on the page. There was the fan. My guest on the program today has written a book of essays on fandom and his own obsessions. In the process, he confronts the big cultural forces of our age.
Jason Guriel is a Toronto writer. His latest book is Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn.
Jason Guriel is my guest, today on Lean Out. Transcript to come for paid subscribers.
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