Reality Matters: 19 Writers Come Clean About the Shows We Can't Stop Watching

Authors: David, Anna
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
BISAC/Subject: LAN005000, SOC022000, ART023000
ISBN: 9780061978487, Related ISBNs: 0061978485, 9780061766640, 9780061978487
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 208,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Top Chef. America’s Next Top Model. Survivor. Dancing with the Stars. American Idol. Big Brother. The Biggest Loser… Everyone has a guilty reality television pleasure. Curated by Party Girl author Anna David, Reality Matters is a collection of hilarious yet revealing essays from novelists, essayists, and journalists—including Toby Young, Neil Strauss, and Stacey Grenrock Woods, among many others—about the reality television shows they love, obsess over, and cringe at; and why they, and America, can’t stop watching.
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