Fan Mail, Frank Letters and Crank Calls

Following the publication of Cookie Mueller’s Garden of Ashes, a reissue of her first contribution to the Hanuman canon: Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls, published in 1988 – an epistolary portrait of the absurdity of human connection. The book also doubles as a shrine to channels of analogue communication between private and public personas that have since metastasized in our climate of microcelebrity ideation. Sexy and hilarious, Mueller’s text embraces the discomfiting nature of desire with empathy and trademark wit. [publisher's note]