Emily Nussbaum is a staff writer at The New Yorker and formerly the magazine's television critic. She is the author of I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through The TV Revolution, an anthology of her criticism and profiles, and Cue The Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV, a non-fiction history of the reality genre. In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Previously, she worked at New York Magazine, where she created the Approval Matrix. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband Clive and while you should stop asking her what her favorite television show is, it's Slings and Arrows.