Rax King - Tacky : Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
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Tacky is a very funny book. Not just funny, I mean, SERIOUSLY FUNNY. King has the power to trick you into thinking youve got the joke all figured out, then suddenly reveals that youre going to experience a wealth of tender, thought-provoking emotions and guess what? Youre gonna like it! On the sentence level, Kings a wizard; shes able to wring the last drops of cool and sweet and sexy out of every moment. This isnt a book you read. It wants to be devoured. Rax King is a supremely gifted writer, and Tacky is a masterly ode to unfettered, unrestrained, and unrepentant joy. Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth
Goddamn, Rax really tore this shit up. THIS BOOK IS GOOD AS HELL. Sam Irby, author of Wow, No Thank You
Tacky proves something to me that Ive thought for a while: liking stuff that is bad actually means Im smart. And it not only means Im smart, but it also means Im a complicated individual with a vast interior life who is capable of deep, lasting love. Rax King turns cultural artifacts like Degrassi, Americas Next Top Model, or Jersey Shore into timeless poetry served on a hilarious, horny dish that youll ugly cry while eating because youll be thinking of the people in your life who have left, whether for a new person or the next world. Each essay burns brighter than Guy Fieris hair. This bitch has me crying to Creed.
Melissa Lozada-Oliva, author of Dreaming of You
Tacky approaches all our gaudiest, clumsiest, most embarrassing cultural artifactsand, at the same time, all our gaudiest, clumsiest, most embarrassing human emotionswith the insight theyre rarely given and the compassion they deserve. A piercing, sparkling rhinestone of a book. Jess Zimmerman, author of Women and Other Monsters
Rax King is one of the sharpest and funniest essayists youll ever read, and her debut is a bounteous feast of hilarity, tenderness, and nostalgia that will make you feel less alone in all of your own tacky joys and obsessions. Get it, read it, savor it like Guy Fieri savors the most beautiful burger youve ever seen. You deserve it.
Nicole Chung, author of All You Can Ever Know
Tacky is overflowing with Cheesecake Factory portions of humor, insight, and tenderness. And youll read the whole thing faster than the Cheesecake Factory menu. Josh Gondelman, author of Nice Try
After reading Rax Kings boisterous, bighearted Tacky, Ill never look at Guy Fieri the same way againbut beyond that, King shifted the way I think about so many pop culture phenomena of the past two decades. Her book is like a delicious funnel cakedusted with frosty wit, soft and chewy in the middle, and I could not stop devouring it.
Rachel Syme
I am thankful for Tacky for how it broadens my own considerations of popular culture, of shame, and of celebration. The meditations in the book are equal parts comical, heartbreaking, and revelatory. A monument to uplifting the parts of popular culture that might otherwise be shrugged off and/or dismissed by those who dont have the imagination to celebrate what they might consider mundane. This book made me feel more at home with my obsessions, both small and large.
Hanif Abdurraqib, author of A Little Devil in America
Rax King is the James Beard Awardnominated writer of the columns Store-Bought Is Fine and Dirtbag Chef, as well as the host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. Her writing can also be found in Glamour, MEL Magazine, Catapult, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn with her hedgehog and toothless Pekingese.
A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL, NOVEMBER 2021
Copyright 2021 by Rax King
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Love, Peace, and Taco Grease first appeared in Catapult on July 29, 2019, and Its Time to Let Meat Loaf into Your Embarrassing Little Heart first appeared in Electric Literature on September 19, 2019.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: King, Rax, author.
Title: Tacky : love letters to the worst culture we have to offer / Rax King.
Description: New York : Vintage Books, 2021.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020052273 (print) | LCCN 2020052274 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593312728 (paperback) | ISBN 9780593312735 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: King, Rax. | Popular cultureUnited StatesAnecdotes.
Classification: LCC PS3611.I58425 Z46 2021 (print) | LCC PS3611.I58425 (ebook) | DDC 814/.6 Bdc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020052273
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020052274
Vintage Books Trade Paperback ISBN9780593312728
Ebook ISBN9780593312735
Cover design by Mark Abrams
Cover images: front CSA Images; back africa924/iStock/ Getty Images
www.vintagebooks.com
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For my dad, who is dead but hopefully taking a break from smoking weed and eating fried chicken on the astral plane to read his daughters book
Pleasure, so to speak, is natures revenge. In it human beings divest themselves of thought, escape from civilization.
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
Do every sin that you can, you know? Have sex with an old man and steal a plant and get arrested.
Nicole Snooki Polizzi
I always thought of tacky as my mothers word, and at eight, I didnt quite know what it meant. In fact, at twenty-eight, I still dont really know what it means, though like Supreme Court Justice Stewart once said of the threshold for obscenity, I know it when I see it. But as a kid, I hadnt yet seen it enough to wrap the word into an appropriate context in my mind. I mostly heard my mother use it when speaking about my fathers mother, a glamorous woman whom I believed was the absolute coolest. I liked watching her chain-smoke and hand my dad his ass in games of Scrabble, though I liked it less and threw occasional temper tantrums when she handed me my own ass in Scrabble. My tantrums seemed to galvanize her. She always responded to them by pointing at me and laughing, taunting me with a chant of Aries moon, Aries moon! until I either cried or shut up. Having been a professional astrologer for decades, she had one answer to all my most annoying behavior, be it my sore-loser tendencies or my stubborn refusal to take a joke that was made at my expense, which was that my Aries moon was responsible.
Still, I liked exploring her musty Miami condo and checking out all the badass old-lady stuff she had: piles of furs that her gangster husband had bought her, entire libraries worth of books about tarot and palmistry, four full boxes of real jewelry that looked fake. Her jewelry alone, shed once bragged, was so heavy that shed had to tip her movers extra. To this day, I look back on that statement and think about how baller it is.
My mother had her issues with her mother-in-law, because this was the 90s and everybody hated their wives and mothers-in-law with all their hearts, if the eras stand-up comedy is to be believed. But when she really wanted to cut my bubbe down to size, shed bust out one particular insult. Your grandi is just
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