From JEWISH FEDERATION AND FOUNDATION OF GREATER TOLEDO
Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away from shows like “The Bachelor” and “Survivor”?
Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Emily Nussbaum will talk about her revelatory new book “Cue the Sun!” that explores
the rise of the “dirty documentary,” from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump.
The author’s presentation and Q&A followed by a book signing will be held Wednesday, July 10 at 7 p.m. at Lourdes Franciscan Center, 6832 Convent Blvd. Admission is $10 per person; copies of Nussbaum’s new book will be available for purchase at the event.
Register by Tuesday, July 9. Click to register. to or Sherry Majewski at 419-724-0351 or sherry@jewishtoledo.org.
Nussbaum will share stories of the real characters who built the reality genre and explore the morally charged, funny, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake.
Nussbaum is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she’s worked since 2011, originally as the magazine’s television critic. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism.
Previously, she was the culture editor for New York, where she created the Approval Matrix. She is the author of “I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution,” which was a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Clive Thompson, and their two children.
