From 'Buffy' Superfan To Pulitzer Prize, A Critic Celebrates TV On Her Own Terms
Emily Nussbaum's new book, I Like To Watch, is a collection of essays that span her career and the age of prestige TV. She wants to "explode and expand" the types of shows we take seriously, she says.
Back in the mid-'90s, Emily Nussbaum was working on a Ph.D. in literature at NYU. But the TV on the other side of the room just kept catching her eye.
"I was sitting on my sofa," Nussbaum says in an interview. "I had a small, junky television. I had broken the extremely rudimentary remote control. I had to get up from the sofa, walk over to the television, turn the big plastic dial ... it made a nice clunky sound."
TV technology has come a long way since then. And so has Emily Nussbaum, who made a career out of writing about television.. And her new book is a collection of new essays and previously-published writing called .
