Will There Ever Be Another You Author : Patricia Lockwood ISBN-13 : 978-1526689207 Publisher : Bloomsbury Circus Guideline Price : £16.99
The audience for popular artforms has long since been balkanised into a constellation of hermetic fandoms, giving rise to a specifically contemporary feeling: I mean the feeling of encountering a work of art that is clearly not meant for you. It’s the feeling you get when you watch a new superhero movie (if you can still bring yourself to do that).
Events and allusions float past. They mean something to the fans. But you are not a fan. You do your best to take the thing on its own terms. But its own terms are those of the fandom. No general audience is envisioned.
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