Tacky love letters to the worst culture we have to offer

"TACKY is about the power of pop culture -- like any art, low or high -- to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These fifteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthet...

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Main Author: King, Rax (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Six feet from the edge
  • Ode to warm vanilla sugar
  • Vignettes from hot topic
  • Never fall in love at the Jersey Shore
  • You wanna be on top?
  • Loss of the American shopping mall
  • Three small worlds
  • The burial of Samantha Jones
  • Exactly as much spinach-and-cheese dip
  • On sexting
  • Whatever it takes, I know I can make it through
  • The Sims and the heart-shaped bed
  • Love, peace, and taco grease
  • It's time to let Meat Loaf into your embarassing little heart.