Emily Nussbaum: Author of Cue The Sun! The Invention of Reality TV

Today’s guest is Emily Nussbaum, Pulitzer prize winner for criticism, staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of her new book Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV. We talk about the history of reality TV, the changing conception of reality TV labor power dynamics, reality tv as modern fables, the sociological function of reality TV as a cultural object, and what feelings we are looking to have when we watch TV. The Difficult Women of “Sex and the City” by Emily Nussbaum I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum