Part cultural criticism, part self-insert fanfiction, part memoir Fan Fiction: A Satire is probably one of the strangest things I've ever read formalistically. But Tavi Gevinson's writing in all three modes is so incisive, piercing and honest I couldn't help but be compelled by it. 

I'm still wrapping my mind around how Gevinson moves between being self-aware and sincere, cynical and unabashedly joyful, pointedly critical and loving. She holds the dichotomy of what it can mean to love an artist this much so well.

But so much of my love of this work comes from being deeply seen by it. Gevinson perfectly captures what it feels like to be consumed by Taylor Swift's music and the parasocial obsession that can spring from that. I probably wouldn't recommend this zine to people who aren't at least familiar with Taylor Swift's music, not only because this work is indulgently referential but because I'm not sure what someone who hasn't experienced at least a fraction of the collective madness of being Swiftie would get out of it.