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From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize–winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has known all along that what we watch is who we are. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television that began with stumbling upon "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"—a show that... more
From her creation of the first “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum has known all along that what we watch is who we are. In this collection, including two never-before-published essays, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television that began with stumbling upon "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"—a show that... more
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Linmanuel Miranda Oh, and at one point I was holding the new @emilynussbaum book, deciding whether to buy a hard copy (I’ve read 2/3 of it on Kindle) and a bookstore employee came out of NOWHERE like “I LOVE EMILY NUSSBAUMS WRITING SO MUCH!!” So Emily, you have a big fan at The Grove B&N. (Source)