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Can you outTaylor SwiftTaylor Swift?
ButFan Fiction, stuffed with delightful-to-decipher mirrors, lyrics, and meta-textual jumps, is all about play.
Split into three parts, the zine feels at once fictional and plausibly true.
I related to her ongoing project of writing about her life from a young age for public consumption.
The zine immediately announces itself as fan fiction.
The project has so many different degrees of removal and carves out space between the writer and the narrator.
Being able to self-publish and not deal with institutional stoppage it kind of feels like being a teenager again.
It gives a sort of freedom around voice that isnt called for in other things Ive written.
It felt really good not to be thinking about likability.
I had a rubric for myself, but …
I want credit for those emails.
I think you get more nuance around the content and context of what youre saying.
Have you heard from Taylor since putting this out in the world?
[Laughs] Isnt it more fun if I dont answer?
I wanted to put this out before my scholarship would be outdated.
My dream is that there is some resonance.
A fantasy, you say?
Theres a stage where you are really seriously thinking about their reactions and trying to anticipate them.
How long have you been working on this?
It felt divorced from reality to make a run at be just a critic.
I kind of made this album release my deadline.
What fan fiction do you read?None.
I wanted to set the readers expectation by calling it that.
I think your obsessions say a lot about you.
I mean, shes created this.
I guess the way that fandom can be both of those things really inspires me.
Does Taylor actually wear glasses?
So that made me happy, that interaction between the virtual and the physical world.
What made you decide to do it as a free zine and not turn it into a book?
[Laughs] Ive written and sifted through so much material over a long period of time.
I am just really lucky that I can do something like this.
Obviously if I publish work and people like it, I benefit from that.
What are your listening plans for album release night?
Are you a member of the Tortured Poets Department?I should be the chairman.
No, shes probably the chairman.
Of course she is.
