Emily Nussbaum

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Writer for The New Yorker, social media addict

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This and Vance's other horrific positions are much more important to highlight than "Oooh, he said a bunch of bad things about Trump." Yes, he's two-faced and has always sold his interior to the highest bidder; that's a Trump entrance requirement. He's also a dangerous extremist. Stay on that.

The Republican Party has nominated a man for Vice President who says he would have ended American democracy if he’d had that role in 2021. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jd-...

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I have not flogged my book in a while, but this is just to say a study of how our former and perhaps future president has used imagery and been shaped/created by TV may have some relevance now? (Not trying to hustle for $! Get it from your library!) wwnorton.com/books/978163...

Audience of Onewwnorton.com New York Times Book Review • Notable Book of the Year Washington Post • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2019 NPR.org • NPR 2019 Concierge Slate • 10 B...

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Welp here we go...

Just arrived in Denver for an event at the Green Box Arts Festival & based on the instructions I’ve received, I will now take a 2-hour drive to a cabin w/ a hot-tub but potentially full of BEARS. If bears eat me in a hot tub, please buy my book and send my love to my family

Looking forward to talking to @MJSchulman about Cue The Sun! tonight at Invisible Dog Art Center! www.eventbrite.com/e/offsite-em...

Offsite: Emily Nussbaum: Cue the Sun! w/ Michael Schulmanwww.eventbrite.com "I'm calling it: Emily Nussbaum is the only reality TV judge who matters *bangs gavel*." —Samantha Irby, author of Wow, No Thank You

On the road, I re-watched Bojack S5—the MeToo season with Philbert, a parody of True Detective—which holds up PERFECTLY. In the process, I realized The Boys just used the same stupid “my violent partner is a hallucination!!” twist Bojack mocked. Ugh The Boys, what a massive letdown

Had a blast talking Cue The Sun with Dan Kois at Politics & Prose in DC!! Next stop, Toledo— then speaking in Brooklyn on Thursday! Join usssss!

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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So many journalists going to be spending their time in leftist brasseries interviewing voters and trying to figure out how they missed this movement

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

This Thursday, 7/11, I'll be back in Brooklyn, hosted by the fabulous Books Are Magic! My lovely colleague @michaelschulman and I will talk about the Louds (the OG reality stars), the merciless Frankenbite & that time a serial killer won The Dating Game... www.eventbrite.com/e/offsite-em...

On the road again this week, excited to talk "Cue The Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV." First up: TUESDAY 7/9, I'll be at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC, talking about everything from Candid Microphone to The Apprentice with Dan Kois... Join us! www.politics-prose.com/emily-nussbaum

Emily Nussbaum — Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV - with Dan Kois — at Conn Ave | Politics and Prose Bookstorewww.politics-prose.com

On the road I watched Colin From Accounts (sweet, funny Catastrophe-ish romance!); finished Upload S3 (sharp, insightful sci-fi farce!); & binged S4 of The Boys… a show I usually love but which crossed a line in the sadism sand, to the point that it felt unwatchable

Had a total blast in Toronto, in my beloved alternate country— huge thanks to @westendphoenix and @stacyleekong! On to DC next Tuesday… (Check emilynussbaum.com/events for upcoming conversations about “Cue The Sun!”)

Heading from LA to Toronto!! Come see me and Stacy Lee Kong talk about Cue The Sun! at the Paradise Theater tomorrow night… westendphoenix.com/wep-central

You still have time to get to LA’s Skylight Bookstore for my 7 pm book event tonight! Come ask me weird questions about reality TV! www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...

At Skylight: Emily Nussbaum presents CUE THE SUN | Skylight Bookswww.skylightbooks.com

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IYKYK, but the final scene of the series finale is... quite something right now.

I can't emphasize how little I want this to occur, BUT... in the horrifying and disheartening event that Trump is reelected, the Kings have to make four more seasons of "The Good Fight." I don't make the rules.

One of my favorite conversations about CUE THE SUN!! Sam Sanders is the best… he really understands reality TV & was so warm, smart, funny & open, such a great interviewer open.spotify.com/episode/46TP...

Inside the making of reality TVopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from Apple News In Conversation on Spotify. Guest-hosted by Sam Sanders: Reality shows — like Survivor, The Bachelor, and Love Is Blind — are some of the most-watched TV series ...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ...

SchoolHouse Rock - No More Kingswww.youtube.com YouTube video by tennesseejed93

This made me cry

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Jonathan Coulton - Nobody's Above the Law (The Good Fight Season 2 Episode 7)www.youtube.com Nobody's Above the Law song from The Good Fight Season 2 Episode 7

Had a fun talk with Chris Black for GQ: www.gq.com/story/pullin...

Why Reality TV Survives and Surviveswww.gq.com GQ columnist Chris Black talks to critic Emily Nussbaum about her new book, Cue the Sun!, a history of reality television, and blows Emily’s mind with the story of his own secondhand brush with realit...

In honor of my book "Cue The Sun," I present the single weirdest clip I stumbled across during my research—not a reality clip, but a 1985 anti-drug PSA filmed by Cops creator John Langley, a video that contains the pure essence of the Just Say No era: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zJ...

"STOP THE MADNESS" (1985, 1986) anti-drug music videowww.youtube.com White House sponsored 1980's music video about drug use.STARRING: New Edition, LaToya Jackson, (a very young) Whitney Houston, Nancy Reagan, David Hasselhoff...

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fuck load up on your physical media if you can. torrent like a madman if you can't. streaming isn't coming to save the day. behave like you got a hot tip about plans to burn the Library of Alexandria.

Sony Group Corp. will reportedly cut around 250 jobs from its recordable media business' key manufacturing hub “It will also gradually cease production of optical disc storage media products, including Blu-ray discs, according to the sources”

Sony Group to cut 250 jobs from recordable media business' key hubmainichi.jp TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Sony Group Corp. will cut around 250 jobs from its recordable media business' key manufacturing hub in northeastern Japan and offer e

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Yes, very smart, recognizing that the main reason to read The Great Gatsby is the information contained in each sentence.

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

Heading to LA! I’m doing an event Monday, July 1, 7 pm at Skylight Books with the fabulous @KateAurthur! Be there or be square! www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...

At Skylight: Emily Nussbaum presents CUE THE SUN | Skylight Bookswww.skylightbooks.com

Had a wonderful time talking with @sarahhepola about Cue The Sun! before my appearance tonight in Dallas: www.dallasnews.com/arts-enterta...

How we became ‘The Truman Show’: Emily Nussbaum’s ‘Cue the Sun!’ tackles reality TVwww.dallasnews.com The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, appearing Friday at Texas Theatre, talks about the invention of a genre that threatens to swallow us whole.

Heading to Dallas tonight!! Join me at the Texas Theater to see THE TRUMAN SHOW and a great conversation about Cue The Sun! with the fabulous @mattzollerseitz: thetexastheatre.com/film/the-tru...

The Truman Show W/ Introduction from Matt Zoller Seitz - The Texas Theatrethetexastheatre.com

Sounds like it was a good night for me to be out in Minneapolis speaking at a book event and then having a cocktail and nowhere near a television set

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AFAICT MTV took down the News content - this article is still accessible in the Internet Archive web.archive.org/web/20230921...

How Adam Schlesinger Briefly Appeared On 'The Real World''s First Episodeweb.archive.org Original cast member Rebecca Blasband remembers her friend, a 'very relaxed and humorous and brilliant songwriter'