{"product_id":"9780593312728","title":"Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epop \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eculture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the \u003ci\u003eCatapult\u003c\/i\u003e column \"Store-Bought Is Fine”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTacky\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eSex and the City,\u003c\/i\u003e Cheesecake Factory's gargantuan menu—into kinder and sharper perspective.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEach 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 \u003ci\u003eJersey Shore\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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 humor.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA VINTAGE ORIGINAL","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007265980656,"sku":"9780593312728","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780593312728_p0.jpg?v=1769896931","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780593312728","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}