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Reality television is the ultimate guilty pleasure -- a nonstop parade of cast members and scenarios that make fictional ones seem downright dull. Increasingly absurd challenges, hair-yanking catfights, and hot tub makeouts dripping with yet-to-be-acknowledged regret are only part of its appeal. In this collection of wry and moving essays, bestselling authors explore the programs we obsess over, cringe at, and occasionally feel inspired by. From a Real World casting call and American Idol tattoo to a look at the appeal of Big Brother, Survivor, The Real Housewives, and more, a vibrant mix of literary luminaries examine the form of entertainment that's dominated our TV screens for more than a decade. Entertaining and insightful, Reality Matters is a must-read for anyone who adores reality TV, wants to know what kind of an impact it's having on our society, or simply wonders just how real any of it actually is.
Anna David's True Tales of Lust and Love began as a one-time-only
reading and storytelling show in January of 2012, a venue for
writers and comedians to share and laugh at their dating disaster
stories. But after selling out the venue and attracting immediate
press and buzz--with articles in "The LA Weekly, LA Times, Time
Out, Flavorpill," and "LAist," among others--David agreed to
produce the show every month. It has continued not only to sell out
but also to attract a growing list of authors, comedians, and
Hollywood writers. As Time Out declared, "This is the place to go
to see strong female performers."
"Funny, smart, and compulsively likeable, Anna David is this
decade's answer to Carrie Bradshaw. There won't be a single second
you won't root for her as she bravely tries to answer the
resonating question: how can I be my best self?" The sex-and-relationship expert on G4's Attack of the Show,
author of Party Girl and Bought, and the editor of Reality Matters,
Anna David is smart, successful, and single. Falling for Me is
Anna's provocative, eye-opening, and inspiring chronicle of the
year she changed her life by following the advice of Cosmopolitan
Magazine guru Helen Gurley Brown in her classic Sex and the Single
Girl. Anna's story of "How I Hung Curtains, Learned to Cook,
Traveled to Seville, and Fell in Love"--and her determination to
either find "the one" or accept once and for all that it's not in
the cards--is touching and transformative, exhilarating and
uplifting, and belongs on every bookshelf next to Eat, Pray, Love
and The Happiness Project.
Celebrity journalist Amelia Stone is the quintessential Hollywood party girl: she stays out late, rubs shoulders (and occasionally more) with celebrities, and ingests copious amounts of cocaine. But after losing her job, her friends, and much of her mind, Amelia makes the drastic decision to end her drug abuse. Once sober, she's hired by a big-name magazine to write a column detailing her wild adventures and she starts seeing the man who could be her Mr. Right. There's just one problem. Overnight, Amelia has become the new face of Hollywood nightlife, and her editors--who don't know she's come clean --want her to play the part. As the lure of her former fast-and-furious lifestyle begins to pull at her, she must decide whether to save herself or salvage her reputation as the ultimate party girl.
Tom Sizemore has been called many things. Brilliant. Brutal.
Fiercely talented. Angry. Drug addicted. In reality, he's all of
them. He's a survivor of the Detroit ghetto, the fifty-year-old
father of twin boys, and a veteran of dozens of movies. He's also
now sober, after his addiction took his life just about as far down
as any human being could go.
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Anna David turns her reporter's eye for detail toward Tinseltown's seedy underbelly yet again and "eloquently and humorously unveil[s] what could be a new subgenre: Chick Lit with a Message" ("New York Post"). Tired of gathering banal quotes from the B-list on the sidelines of the red carpet, Emma Swanson publicly yearns for a more substantial career but privately dreams of a hotshot boyfriend to transport her into the beating heart of the Hollywood scene. Instead, she meets Jessica--beautiful, cavalier, manipulative--who shamelessly trades sex for the gifts it can bring. Convinced that writing a story about Jessica and her ilk would seriously boost her journalistic cred, Emma soon finds herself sucked into a world where the luxuries of prettied-up prostitution may cost more than she ever expected.
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