In 2007, journalist Carl Wilson wrote the tiny book Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series. Wilson’s thoughtful, challenging treatment of Celine Dion’s oeuvre and ruminations on the nature of taste made it a critically-acclaimed hit.
Now Bloomsbury and Wilson are set to release an expanded edition that contains both the original book and a series of essays on its themes from people like Mary Gaitskill, Sheila Heti, Krist Novoselic and James Franco. Wilson will be launching Let’s Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste on Tuesday April 8th, 8pm at the Monarch Tavern (12 Clinton Street) in Toronto. He’ll be joined by Montreal writer (and creator of Said the Gramophone) Sean Michaels, who will be launching Us Conductors, which is a novel about the ghostly musical instrument THEREMIN. (We are really into theremins and theremin-adjacent ideas here at Broken Pencil, hence the caps.)
The evening will also a performance by the stunning Snowblink, a rap battle between a thereminist and a Celine Dion fan, DJing from Sandro Perri, and of course, a theremin performance. The night will be hosted by Liisa Ladoucer. We’re pleased to co-sponsor this event with Type Books, and we promise it will be hilarious, bizarre and, like Wilson’s book, thought-provoking and moving. Hope to see you.