Sloppy, or: Doing It All Wrong
Sloppy explores sobriety, begrudging self-improvement, and the habits we cling to with clenched fists. Read the book that comedian and author Josh Gondelman hopes will sell a million copies “because then Rax can pay back the money she borrowed from me when she was doing all those drugs.”
Tacky 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, Sex and the City, Cheesecake Factory’s gargantuan menu—into kinder and sharper perspective.