Anne Jamison is the author of three critical books, including Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World. She teaches literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present at the University of Utah. She lives in Salt Lake City with her dogs, her son, and an avant-garde poet. In Between Days is her first novel. How did you get into reading/writing fic? What were your earliest fandoms, and what’s the newest one you’ve fallen for? I first found online fandom when I was teaching Buffy as a TA for seven discussion sections and I got desperate (that is…
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Did I have the purest of intentions to read spooky books in honor of spooky season? YOU BETCHA. Did I end up just reading a shit-ton of romance novels in the month of October instead? INDEED I DID. I can always read spooky stuff in November, right? Here are the romances I’ve been putting in my brain, friends. How to Catch a Wicked Viscount, Amy Rose Bennett After an indiscretion at school that leaves Sophie and her three best friends with a reputation for scandal, she never expects to be accepted back into polite society. But when Charlotte discovers Sophie…
Leave a CommentBy a stroke of good fortune, I happened to read Joanna Russ’s feminist classic How to Suppress Women’s Writing just prior to reading Anne Jamison’s Fic (Smart Pop Books), which made for an interesting pairing. On one hand, Russ’s book feels depressingly current: You need only spend a few minutes on Twitter to witness all of the tactics for suppressing women’s writing that Russ details. But on the other hand, even with all of these tactics being leveled at the (mostly female) writers of fanfiction (especially the “poor author too pathetic and forlorn to get a man” trope), here we…
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