Wendy A. Woloson, "Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Importance of Vernacular Goods
In some parts of the book you deal with quite high quality goods. In other parts, it's about objects that actually may have important meanings to people. And what's kind of fascinating is why did you write a book about this intuitively? When I started reading the book, I was like, of course we needed this book to bring together these varieties of crappiness. Where did the idea of the inspiration come from?
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