I began my writing career as a teen music journalist, and my fascination with parasocial relationships (see: Parasocialite) largely stems from the artist-fan interactions I observed (not to mention the occasional flickers of infatuation I had to stomp out in order to do my job well). Thus, Moon immediately seized my attention. As so many of us do, I love the intersection of highbrow and lowbrow, and Moon is as good as it gets in that category: Yi records the vicissitudes of a K-Pop fan’s obsession with striking seriousness (all while maintaining a powerful first-person POV).

Published in The Paris Review, Summer 2022