Everything I Need I Get from You

Tiffany is at the height of her powers when she is describing, with touching specificity, why it might make sense for a person to invest serious time and money into a bunch of cute boys singing silly love songs . . . On the internet, fandom can be a route toward cyberbullying a baby, or it can be a way of figuring some things out about yourself. Sometimes, it can even forge a writer as funny and perceptive as Kaitlyn Tiffany. --Amanda Hess, The New York Times Tiffany provides nuanced analysis of an often-overlooked force in internet history, one dominated by the kind of young women whom the rest of the world dismissed as little more than brainless teenyboppers. --Rebecca Jennings, Vox Sharp and very funny . . . Writing as a Directioner reintegrated into civil society, moving artfully between reportage and memoir, fanspeak and critical analysis, Tiffany avoids the default condescension to which fangirls are often subjected and takes their exploits seriously, teasing out the relationship of fandom to both individual identity and online community. --Jake Nevins, Gawker What [Everything I Need I Get from You] illuminate[s] is the way a fan's love often ignites during crises of identity . . . What you get is a reason to dance on a rooftop, and a friend who knew that was what you needed. Theirs is a fandom that almost--almost--doesn't need a band or a movie or a TV show around which to organize. --Laura Miller, Slate The book's balance of first-person experience and scholarly analysis, humor and rigor, makes it an irresistible read. --Pitchfork There are two types of people: those who know what it is to be an utter, soul-level fangirl, and those who cannot comprehend the lifestyle, and both groups should read Kaitlyn Tiffany's propulsive, entertaining study of contemporary female fan culture. --Jenny Singer, Glamour [A] wonderfully fresh take on fandom . . . uses her love of One Direction ingeniously to trace how online culture came to feel. --Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune An alluring mixture of personal anecdotes, conspiracy theory investigations, and interviews with preeminent fangirls of all stripes.--Sophie Lee, Interview Immensely entertaining . . . Well-versed in this subsect of internet culture thanks to her own passion for One Direction . . . Tiffany remains archly self-aware throughout, assuming an alternately waggish and reverential tone that perfectly captures the absurd genius of this influential army of women. Stans will want an encore. --Publishers Weekly (starred review) A heartfelt memoir wrapped in an ethnographic analysis . . . Despite its focus on One Direction, the text buzzes with broader relevance that should appeal to readers interested in the 'unlimited chaotic energy' of life online. A finely balanced pop-culture investigation. --Kirkus With her insider-outsider perspective, patience, and wit, Kaitlyn Tiffany does remarkable justice to the complexity of online culture. Everything I Need I Get From You will fascinate aficionados, but even for someone who's never so much as logged on, it makes a rich and heartfelt explainer on the feelings and phenomena that thrive on the internet. --Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing How often the world forgets that the things of girls populate the intellect just as thickly and freely as the things of boys. Kaitlyn Tiffany's Everything I Need I Get From You is a brilliant demonstration of the joy, power, technological innovation and world-changing shifts that happen when girls turn on their love. --Samantha Hunt, author of The Unwritten Book Just when I can't bear to read another thing about the boys who built or wrecked the Internet, Everything I Need I Get from You comes along. Kaitlyn Tiffany's book is a fresh and often funny experiment in finding forms fit to archive the websites where we became ourselves--and full, like them, of joy and awkward tenderness. As cultural history, it casts the most familiar developments in a new light. As criticism meets memoir meets performance art, it won me over like a great fan will--through sheer commitment to the bit. --Moira Weigel, author of Labor of Love Kaitlyn Tiffany's Everything I Need I Get From You is a headlong plunge into fandom, which, as she deftly illustrates, is the single force that drives today's Internet more than anything else. Tiffany shows that fandom isn't just about consumption: It's an all-consuming creative passion, a drive to remake culture for yourself. Tiffany is a sociologist of online niches as well as a brilliant recounter of the kind of obsessiveness that fandom thrives on, precisely because she knows the fervor herself. Everything I Need I Get From You is a perfect document of the peculiarly fruitful form of Internet-enabled obsession. --Kyle Chayka, author of The Longing for Less