Taylor Swift: Album by Album - Hardcover (ONLINE ORDER ONLY)

by Kase Wickman (Author), Joanna Weiss (Author), Moira McAvoy (Author)

If you're a passionate Swiftie who wants to know EVERYTHING about your favorite icon--especially her music--this luxuriously illustrated deep dive should take center stage.

Featuring fresh insights from all eleven studio albums--from Taylor Swift to The Tortured Poets Department--Taylor Swift: Album by Album mines her life, lyrics, and music like nothing else before it. This book also features several chapters on all the Taylor's Version albums released to date, with panel discussions from noted Swift scholars accompanied by vibrant photography that captures Swift in each and every era, from an aspiring country musician to the dominant global force she is today.

Swift's artistry, awards, and accolades are hard to encompass, from the youngest artist with a No. 1 song on the Hot Country chart to the first recipient of Billboard's Woman of the Decade award. Swifties will find that and more inside, including:

• Fresh insight into her lyrics, life, and loves from her earliest days as a recording artist
• Tons of sidebars that explore her influences, lyrical references, musical knowledge, and more
• Details on album personnel, special guests, awards, and tours
• A special section on the Taylor's Version albums that explains how they came about and why they matter to Taylor and scores of Swifties everywhere

Taylor Swift: Album by Album is more than just pretty pictures; it's a door into how and why this talented musician continues to inspire fans around the world. Young or old, OG or new Swiftie, this book has it all.

Author Biography

Kase Wickman is a culture journalist, editor, and author. Her reporting, criticism, and commentary has appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, and New York Magazine, among other publications. She is the culture & society reporter at Vanity Fair, and her first book, BRING IT ON: The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed, Like, Everything (No, Seriously), was published in 2022 by Chicago Review Press. Kase lives on the East Coast with her husband, daughter, and 12-foot-tall lawn skeleton, Terror Swift.

Joanna Weiss is the editor of Harvard Magazine and a longtime journalist based in Boston. Her work has appeared in the Boston Globe, POLITICO Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, The Economist, Boston Magazine, and WBUR's Cognoscenti. She also writes rock songs with her unlikely band, The Lazy Susans. Her Boston Magazine article "For Those Moms About to Rock" has been optioned for film by 20th Century Studios.

Moira McAvoy lives, writes, and markets shows in Washington, D.C. A founding editor of Bad For You, McAvoy has also served on the editorial staff of NANO Fiction and The Rappahannock Review, and her work can be found in The Rumpus, The Financial Diet, wig-wag, and elsewhere. When not attending her next favorite concert-or promoting yours-Moira can be found taking long walks, making memes, and testing theories about Taylor Swift's music. McAvoy is currently within the top 500 all-time global listeners for five different Swift tracks (and counting).