middlebrow

Which is a shame, because sometimes a mild, witty, middlebrow comedy that isn’t trying too hard to be virtuous or subversive or timely really hits the spot.

The headline on a great 2014 profile of Trebek in the New Republic declared him the “Last King of the American Middlebrow.”

Salinger retooled it, retitled it "Paula," and sold it to Stag, a middlebrow publication for men.

And anyway, he continues, those gifts have been “thoroughly incorporated into American upper-middlebrow culture.”

Or does middlebrow entertainment become appealing only when it has aged into a minority taste?

In the book, his scope includes both the high- and middlebrow.

The absurdly successful Gwyn Barry is a hilarious take on middlebrow, narcissistic celebrity authors.