Let's Talk about Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste (Paperback, Revised)

A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER PART I Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste Carl Wilson 1. Let's Talk About Hate 2. Let's Talk About Pop (and Its Critics) 3. Let's Talk in French 4. Let's Talk About World Conquest 5. Let's Talk About Schmaltz 6. Let's Sing Really Loud 7. Let's Talk About Taste 8. Let's Talk About Who's Got Bad Taste 9. Let's Talk with Some Fans 10. Let's Do a Punk Version of "My Heart Will Go On" (or, Let's Talk About Our Feelings) 11. Let's Talk About Let's Talk About Love 12. Let's Talk About Love PART II Essays: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Carl Wilson, "Introduction" Nick Hornby, "The Artists We Deserve" Krist Novoselic, "With the Lights On, It's Less Useless" Ann Powers, "If the Girls Were All Transported" Mary Gaitskill, "The Most Obvious Thing" Jason King, "Compared to What?" Daphne Brooks, "Let's Talk About Diana Ross (In Memory of Trayvon Martin)" Drew Daniel, "Deep in the Game" Sukhdev Sandhu, "Children of the Corn" James Franco, "Acting In and Out of Context" Marco Roth and the Editors of n+1, "Too Much Sociology" Jonathan Sterne, "Giving Up on Giving Up on Good Taste" Owen Pallett, "When I Come Home" Sheila Heti, "Playlist: Let's Listen to Love" PART III Afterword Carl Wilson, "Let's Talk Later" ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS