Reality Matters: 19 Writers Come Clean about the Shows We Can't Stop Watching - Softcover

"Shockingly amusing and periodically poignant, Reality Matters gives college-educated reality show fans permission to smile about their devotion to America's guiltiest lowbrow pleasure."--LAist.com

"A brilliant compilation."--Starpulse

"Insightful."--USA Today, Idol Chatter

"If there's anything more entertaining than experiencing the guilty pleasure of reality TV firsthand, it's reading a bunch of brilliant people trying to rationalize their obsession with the genre."--Flavorpill

"Fun, funny, and surprising."--Penthouse

Durable writing about reality television, is such a thing possible?...[Reality Matters] may answer that question. It contains considered essays on Project Runway, Dog Whisperer, Survivor, and Jersey Shore ....[and] useful analysis of the fakery/reality issues inherent in television that purports to be, though rarely is, entirely true. --The New Yorker"

Insightful. --USA Today, Idol Chatter"

Fun, funny, and surprising. --Penthouse"

Shockingly amusing and periodically poignant, Reality Matters gives college-educated reality show fans permission to smile about their devotion to America s guiltiest lowbrow pleasure. --LAist.com"

If there s anything more entertaining than experiencing the guilty pleasure of reality TV firsthand, it s reading a bunch of brilliant people trying to rationalize their obsession with the genre. --Flavorpill"

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 byParty 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.