Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste
Here’s Wilson’s redo of his 2007 Celine Dion smearfest and smartly considered discussion of taste, good and bad (part of the 33 1/3 series), with two new sections added. This volume pulls out the original—12 ­multipronged chapters covering the vagaries and varieties of opinions on pop culture (the hell that is other people’s favorite music) and a vivid, bloody dissection of Dion the performer and her overbearingly popular Titanic hit, My Heart Will Go On, and adds a part 2, which brings in culture-related essays from such writers and performers as Nick Hornby, Mary Gaitskill, and James Franco (Franco noting, after discussing his General Hospital soap-opera stint, the difference in how critics employ context, whether they looked up to it, or down on it. Part 3, the smallest, offers Wilson’s updated reflections. The book is laugh-out-loud funny, whip-smart about contemporary thought, and fascinating in its many voices, but, readers, beware—you may wind up humming that song for days afterward. --Eloise Kinney