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A review by chirson
American Reader May/June 2013 by Liam Hysjulien, Park Min-gyu, Moon Tae-jun, Jacques Rancière, Hwang Byeong-seung, Otto Jaffe, Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon, Ramon Isao, Kim Aeran, Joyce Carol Oates, Carmen Maria Machado, Uzoamaka Maduka, Jameson Fitzpatrick, Jenny Wang Medina, Jacqueline Waters, Matthew Rohrer
4.0
Fascinating, dark, funny and oddly accurate. Law & Order SVU was my TV drug of choice when I was in high school, eons ago, and I've seen some of the more recent seasons - and this feels so true to the at times bizarre and scattered feel of the show, not to mention the characterisation. It does what any great fanwork should do - looks at the text in a new way, comments on it and does it with both revulsion and devotion. A great job. I'm curious how the author could have rendered the other characters, because the way in which she finds the essence of Benson and Stabler is amazing.
(I've seen the author remark somewhere that someone told her it was fanfiction derisively. I say so with no derision - this is obviously literary metafiction & obviously a fanwork. Unless we decide that getting published professionally makes something non-fanfiction (looking at Star Wars, maybe that's actually correct). The two are not mutually exclusive, but the way in which it takes liberties with the source material isn't unheard of in fanworks.Truth be told, I may have both read and written not dissimilar fanfiction back in the day, albeit obviously less professionally written and, well, much shorter. CoughMinewasaboutBigLovecough.)
(I've seen the author remark somewhere that someone told her it was fanfiction derisively. I say so with no derision - this is obviously literary metafiction & obviously a fanwork. Unless we decide that getting published professionally makes something non-fanfiction (looking at Star Wars, maybe that's actually correct). The two are not mutually exclusive, but the way in which it takes liberties with the source material isn't unheard of in fanworks.