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5/100Critics
52/100Scholars
Author:
Rax King
Publisher:
Vintage
Date:
November 2, 2021
Each essay revolves around a different maligned (and yet, Rax would argue, vital) cultural artifact, from MTV's Jersey Shore reality TV show to Guy Fieri, exploring what makes it "tacky" and King's own relationship to it.
What The Reviewers Say
... funny and moving.
... here comes Rax King, in her ebullient book Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer, to make the late aughts seem like the most vivid, concrete and ecstatic moment to burst into adolescence since time out of mind.
These pieces are smart and crass and unapologetic and wildly entertaining.
Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different: Bettie Page meets Carrie Bradshaw, if Bradshaw supported Bernie Sanders for president and sometimes wore an Old Bay-patterned bikini.
