Tacky Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

Tacky is about the power of pop culture-like any art-to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These fourteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we hate to love-snakeskin pants, Sex and the City, Cheesecake Factory's gargantuan menu-into kinder and sharper perspective. Each essay revolves around a different maligned (and yet, Rax would argue, vital) cultural artifact, providing thoughtful, even romantic meditations on desire, love, and the power of nostalgia. An essay about the gym-tan-laundry exuberance of Jersey Shore morphs into an excavation of grief over the death of her father; in "You Wanna Be On Top," Rax writes about friendship and early aughts girlhood; in another, Guy Fieri helps her heal from an abusive relationship. The result is a collection that captures the personal and generational experience of finding joy in caring just a little too much with clarity, heartfelt honesty, and Rax King's trademark humour. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.

ISBN:	9780593312728
Publisher:	Vintage Books
Imprint:	Vintage Books
Published date:	04 Aug 2022
DEWEY:	814.6
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	10630
Number of pages:	193
Weight:	214g
Height:	132mm
Width:	204mm
Spine width:	19mm

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