Emily Nussbaum: I Like to Watch

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations

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Book by Emily Nussbaum

I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

Books by Rachel Giese

Boys: What it Means to Become a Man

Books on TV mentioned in I Like To Watch

I’ll Be There for You: The One About Friends by Kelsey Miller

Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell

I Think I’m Outta Here: A Memoir of All My Families by Carroll O’Connor

The Sopranos Sessions by Matt Zoller Seitz

Other Seminal Books on TV

TV (the book) by Alan Sepinwall

The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to The Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific by David Bianculli

Sitcom: A History in 24 Episodes by Saul Austerlitz

Other Related Materials

I Love Top Ten Lists (article from The New Yorker)

Critic Emily Nussbaum on the charms of modern television-watching (article from Vox)

Critic Emily Nussbaum Weighs In on Best TV shows of the Decade (clip from NPR)

Live Mic: Best of TPL Conversations features curated discussions and interviews with some of today’s best-known and yet-to-be-known writers, thinkers and artists, recorded on stage at one of Toronto Public Library’s 100 branches. Episodes are produced by Natalie Kertes, Jorge Amigo, and Gregory McCormick. Technical support by Michelle De Marco and George Panayotou. AV support by Jennifer Kasper and Mesfin Bayssassew. Marketing support by Tanya Oleksuik.

Music is by The Worst Pop Band Ever.