What should we do when we love the art, but hate the artist? In the age of the #MeToo movement, it’s the question that lurks around every corner. How do we solve a problem like Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, or Pablo Picasso?
In Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma, critic and memoirist Claire Dederer delivers an unflinching meditation on some of the thorniest questions of our time. Can we ethically consume the art of monstrous artists? Do we hold monstrous women to different standards than monstrous men? In the age of parasocial relationships, how much does fandom define us, and what’s a fan to do when our favorite artist betrays us? Dederer contends that these contradictions are baked into the endeavor of making and loving art.
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