Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

"In this original essay collection, podcaster and Twitter personality Rax King uses the cultural artifacts of her youth to access emotional and interpersonal truths about grief, sex and growing up. Tacky is an unabashed celebration of the uncool and the lowbrow, an excavation of millennial girlhood, and an exercise in affectionate nostalgia for the early 2000s. King urges readers to let retro delights like Creed, Jersey Shore, Hot Topic and America’s Next Top Model into our “embarrassing little hearts.” An antidote to contemporary cultural criticism steeped in moralism, Tacky will resonate with everyone who prefers to enjoy their guilty pleasures unironically."