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Tavi Gevinson Has More to Say About Taylor Swift
The writer and actress answers every question we have about her fan-fic Taylor Swift zine: “To quote the daughter from Proof, ‘I wrote it.’”
On April 14, in a move that felt right out of the singer’s playbook, Tavi Gevinson’s new zine, an obsessive and enigmatic work called Fan Fiction: A Satire, was released from the vault, available for download or pickup at a handful of bookstores in New York, Chicago, and L.A. “Part One: New Romantics” is the type of hybrid essay a Taylor Swift–themed seminar might produce, weaving thinkers like Barthes, Woolf, and Berger into a grand unifying theory of the singer’s relationship to memory and writing. Using these biographical details as a sort of jumping-off point and not necessarily in a confessional way brought some lightness to a subject that I think about a lot — growing up with an audience or writing about difficult experiences and how that changes your relationship to your own life.
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