First magazines and newspapers, then trashy books, and later, with a few headaches, new material-high literature.

"You read too many trashy books, Vance."

The end of Communism swept in a new era of freedom, including the freedom to publish trashy books and even pornography.

He could quote philosophers, calling Kierkegaard a messiah and Kant a crank, but also spent time reading trashy self-help books.

They were always watching space shows on TV, or reading too many of those trashy comic books.

The critics then thought they were trashy books and I suppose they were.

And one page consists of nothing but howlingly funny jacket blurbs for a trashy true-crime book about a woman who has killed her abusive husband.

Of course, it was the principle of the thing, it didn't matter how trashy the book in question was.

Not the tawdry sort of love he described in trashy books; it was a pure, unsullied jove.

He just couldn't figure how to keep writing those trashy books without a front.