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SUMMARY:True Reads Book Club: I Like to Watch
DESCRIPTION:Come discuss the most interesting books in new Non-Fiction with our True Reads book club! Happening every 4-6 weeks hosted by Librairie Drawn & Quarterly staff. \nFor our NOVEMBER meeting\, we’ll be reading I LIKE TO WATCH by Emily Nussbaum. The book club will meet at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard Ouest at 7pm. This month’s meeting is hosted by Drawn & Quarterly Marketing Assistant Nathalie Marsh. Join us for discussion and drinks! \n**We offer a 20% discount on I Like to Watch from now until the meeting date.** \nI LIKE TO WATCH\nFrom her creation of the “Approval Matrix” in New York magazine in 2004 to her Pulitzer Prize–winning columns for The New Yorker\, Emily Nussbaum has argued for a new way of looking at TV. In this collection\, including two never-before-published essays\, Nussbaum writes about her passion for television\, beginning with Buffy the Vampire Slayer\, the show that set her on a fresh intellectual path. She explores the rise of the female screw-up\, how fans warp the shows they love\, the messy power of sexual violence on TV\, and the year that jokes helped elect a reality-television president. There are three big profiles of television showrunners—Kenya Barris\, Jenji Kohan\, and Ryan Murphy—as well as examinations of the legacies of Norman Lear and Joan Rivers. The book also includes a major new essay written during the year of #MeToo\, wrestling with the question of what to do when the artist you love is a monster. \nMore than a collection of reviews\, the book makes a case for toppling the status anxiety that has long haunted the “idiot box\,” even as it transformed. Through it all\, Nussbaum recounts her fervent search\, over fifteen years\, for a new kind of criticism\, one that resists the false hierarchy that elevates one kind of culture (violent\, dramatic\, gritty) over another (joyful\, funny\, stylized). I Like to Watch traces her own struggle to punch through stifling notions of “prestige television\,” searching for a more expansive\, more embracing vision of artistic ambition—one that acknowledges many types of beauty and complexity and opens to more varied voices. It’s a book that celebrates television as television\, even as each year warps the definition of just what that might mean. \nEMILY NUSSBAUM has written for The New Yorker since 2011. She is the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for criticism and the 2014 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. Previously\, she was the TV critic and editor of the Culture Pages for New York magazine\, where she created the Approval Matrix\, the playful culture charticle that closes each issue. Nussbaum has written for The New York Times\, Slate\, and Lingua Franca. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband\, Clive Thompson\, and their two children.
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LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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