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Coming up on forum, The Rise of Reality TV.

You might think of reality television as a guilty pleasure, lowbrow, even morally ambiguous,

like Love is Blind, Survivor, The Bachelor.

But then you might miss the extent to which it has seeped into every crevice of our culture,

as Emily Nussbaum puts it, shaping our views, our lives, our elections, the apprentice.

Nussbaum is TV critic for The New Yorker and has written a new book called Q the Sun,

looking at the genre's origins and its explosion, and makes the case for why it should be taken seriously for both its art and its power.

Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. When New Yorker staff writer Emily Nussbaum began working on her book about the origins of reality TV, she says the deeper she looked, the darker things got, finding reality stars whose lives were wrecked, or methods of production so ugly they're hard to look at.

But Nussbaum also found reality TV could be a platform for representation, from the working-class

single moms on Queen for a day, she writes, to Cuban-American activist Pedro Zamora, a young

gay man with AIDS, who turned into a national star on the real world.

Nussbaum's new book, Q the Sun, The Invention of Reality TV,

tells the story of the genre through the voices of the people who built it.

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