Let's Talk About Love

Carl Wilson is a writer and editor at The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, and his work also has appeared in Pitchfork, Slate, The New York Times, Blender and many other publications. His pieces were selected for two of Da Capo Books' annual Best Music Writing collections, in 2002 and 2007, by guest editors Jonathan Lethem and Robert Christgau. He runs the popular music blog Zoilus.com and is part of the team behind Trampoline Hall, Toronto's acclaimed nightclub series of lectures by non-experts, which toured America in 2002.

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• A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHERPART ILet’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste Carl Wilson1. 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 IIEssays: 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 IIIAfterwordCarl Wilson, “Let’s Talk Later”ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS