Reality Matters: 19 Writers Come Clean About the Shows We Can't Stop Watching
&#8220;Durable writing about reality television, is such a thing possible?...[Reality Matters] may answer that question. It contains considered essays on &#8220;Project Runway,&#8221; &#8220;Dog Whisperer,&#8221; &#8220;Survivor,&#8221; and &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221;....[and] useful analysis of the fakery/reality issues inherent in television that purports to be, though rarely is, entirely true. &#8221; (The New Yorker)&#8220;Insightful.&#8221; (USA Today, Idol Chatter)&#8220;Fun, funny, and surprising.&#8221; (Penthouse)&#8220;Shockingly amusing and periodically poignant, Reality Matters gives college-educated reality show fans permission to smile about their devotion to America&#8217;s guiltiest lowbrow pleasure.&#8221; (LAist.com)&#8220;If there&#8217;s anything more entertaining than experiencing the guilty pleasure of reality TV firsthand, it&#8217;s reading a bunch of brilliant people trying to rationalize their obsession with the genre.&#8221; (Flavorpill)&#8220;A brilliant compilation.&#8221; (Starpulse)