Tavi Gevinson - Fan Fiction *3rd Edition* (Pre-Order)

  “Sometimes I think ambition is not drive so much as an intolerance for unhappy endings.” Fan Fiction is a zine by Tavi Gevinson. Although this 19,000-word satirical work of fiction is ostensibly about Taylor Swift, it quickly becomes a meditation on memory and image-making before exploding into a twisted tale of friendship, fandom, and failure. Join our narrator as she suffocates from obsession, nostalgia, the sacrifices demanded by autobiographical art, the deranging impact of internet usage, the numbing effects of fame, and maybe—just maybe—real life. As Leigh Stein wrote in Lit Hub, “You don’t need to know a single Taylor Swift lyric by heart to enjoy Tavi’s genre-defying project.” Gevinson first published Fan Fiction online as a free PDF for anyone to read or print. Now, readers can order a copy gorgeously printed at full-bleed by Heavy Manners, each with a special risograph cover in a surprise color. The inside, printed in black-and-white, is complete with Gevinson’s ecstatic co