num_pages: 213
description: The perfect book for anyone with a Netflix account and a library card.Smart sharp and hilarious Slaughterhouse 90210 is the perfect pick-me-up and never-put-me-down book. - Jami Attenberg bestselling author of The MiddlesteinsSlaughterhouse 90210 pairs literature's greatest lines with pop culture's best moments.In 2009 Maris Kreizman wanted to combine her fierce love for pop culture with a lifelong passion for reading and so the blog Slaughterhouse 90210 was born. By matching poignant passages from literature with popular moments from television film and real life Maris' work instantly caught the attention (and adoration) of thousands. And it's easy to see why.Slaughterhouse 90210 is subversively brilliant finding the depth in the shallows of reality television and the levity in Lahiri. A picture of Taylor Swift is paired with Joan Didion's quote Above all she is the girl who 'feels things'. The girl ever wounded ever young. Tony Soprano tenderly hugs his teenage son accompanied by a line from Middlemarch about The patches of hardness and tenderness [that] lie side by side in men's dispositions. The images and quotes complement and deepen one another in surprising profound and tender ways.With over 150 color photographs from some of popular culture's most iconic moments Kreizman shows why comparing Walter White to Faust makes sense in our celebrity-obsessed TV-crazed society.
language: English
title: Slaughterhouse 90210: Where Great Books Meet Pop Culture
publisher: Flatiron Books