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What the Hell Is ‘Twee’? A Genre? A Mindset? An Art Form?

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It’s an esthetic that’s neither kitsch nor cool. And the unhip multitudes it contains include Disney, Salinger, and Sylvia Plath. Confused, we quizzed an authority.

Scott Porch
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I have a tenuous grasp of Twee. (And that’s Twee with a capital “T.” Not twee, which means the same thing. Sort of. I think.)

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