Rax King

"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 aesthetics we've learned to hate to love -- frosted tips and glosses, Sex and the City, The Cheesecake Factory -- into kinder and sharper perspective. Each essay revolves around a different maligned (and yet, Rax would argue, vital) cultural artifact and its entwinement with Rax's millennial coming-of-age: an essay about the gym-tan-laundry exuberance of Jersey Shore morphs into an excavation of grief over the death of her father, who loved the show; in another, Guy Fieri helps her heal from an abusive relationship. The result is a collection that captures a personal and generational experience with clarity, humor, and heartfelt honesty"--

Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

Tacky

James Joyce

Stephen King

Ray Bradbury

Shirley Jackson

David Sedaris

Louise Erdrich

Samantha Irby

Carmen Maria Machado

Ursula LeGuin

Ernest Hemingway

Our book club’s short works collection for the year 2024 with suggestions submitted by members.

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