It’s impossible to confuse Sherlock and War of the Foxes. I can participate in the Sherlock fandom because there’s room for me.
I see the overlap - cars, guns, violence, danger, chasing and escaping, a relationship that seems more than brotherly but not quite romantic - but I think Crush and Supernatural are products of a cultural moment, not products of each other. Nothing I say convinces people otherwise, even though Crush was accepted for publication before Supernatural aired. There’s an unswayable belief that Crush is already and always has been Wincest. It’s not that Wincest leaves me cold, it’s that the idea of participating in it - writing Wincest myself - leaves me cold. You have a huge following in the Wincest community - those fans who pair Supernatural’s brothers Winchester as lovers, though you’ve said Wincest personally leaves you cold. “Insisting your writing overlaps,” that’s interesting. For better or worse, television is the great American narrative. I followed all the Lost message boards and wikis. I’m also taken by shows like Lost and The X-Files. I’m interested in the fandoms that insist my writing overlaps. And now the Sherlock fandom is pulling lines from Crush (and occasionally War of the Foxes) for their prompts and memes.Īre Supernatural and Sherlock your fandoms? Do you have any? I got really interested when they began pulling lines from Crush. I remember seeing slash here and there, but I suppose the Supernatural community was my first encounter with a group of people building a mythos outside of a show, parallel to a show. But do you remember if it was the first fan fic you ever read? And the timing between that show’s premiere and the release of Crush is something you’ve written about at some length. Supernatural was the first show whose fan fic I ever discovered. We spent the next three weeks trading emails. I invited Siken to talk about all of this, and also the new book.
Siken has gotten into it, too, recently creating his own Tumblr and Sherlock slash. More recently, Siken has become prominent in Sherlock fandom in a similar way: two men, mysteries, fucking. The result has been a lot of slash fiction - and other fan works - that appropriate Siken’s poetry, particularly as Tumblr has become the center of fandom, and fandom has become the center of Tumblr. In April, the poet Richard Siken released his second book, War of the Foxes - ten years after Crush, his award-winning debut, which Louise Glück wrote restored “to poetry that sense of crucial moment and crucial utterance which may indeed be the great genius of the form.”īut many fans of the television show Supernatural, which tells the story of the tempestuous relationship between two demon-fighting brothers, thought that Crush was about their favorite characters fucking.
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