Emily Nussbaum Explained

Emily Nussbaum
Birth Date:February 20, 1966
Occupation:Television critic
Spouse:Clive Thompson
Relatives:Bernard Nussbaum (father)
Children:2

Emily Nussbaum (born February 20, 1966) is an American television critic.[1] [2] She served as the television critic for The New Yorker from 2011 until 2019.[3] In 2016, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.

Early life

Nussbaum was born in the United States to mother Toby Nussbaum and Bernard Nussbaum, who served as White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton.[4] [5]

Nussbaum was raised in Scarsdale, New York, and graduated from Oberlin College in 1988.[6] [7] She earned a master's degree in poetry from New York University[8] and started a doctoral program in literature, but decided not to pursue teaching.[9]

Career

After living in Providence, Rhode Island, and Atlanta, Georgia, Nussbaum began writing reviews of TV shows following her infatuation with the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer[10] and posting at the website Television Without Pity.[11] [12] [13] She began writing for Lingua Franca and served as editor-in-chief of Nerve.[14] She also wrote for Slate and The New York Times.

Nussbaum then worked at New York magazine, where she was the creator of the "Approval Matrix" feature and wrote about culture and television.[15] She was at New York for seven years and was the culture editor.[16]

In 2011, she became the television critic at The New Yorker,[17] taking over from Nancy Franklin.[18] She won a National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary in 2014 and the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2016.[19]

Personal life

Nussbaum is married to journalist Clive Thompson.[20] They have two children.[21]

Awards

Bibliography

Books

Essays and reporting

Blog posts and online columns

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Notes and References

  1. Three Pulitzers for New Yorker Writers. April 19, 2016. The New Yorker. April 18, 2016.
  2. News: Rosenberg. Alyssa. Why everyone is freaking out over Emily Nussbaum's Pulitzer Prize for criticism. April 19, 2016. The Washington Post. April 18, 2016.
  3. News: New Yorker Reshuffles: Emily Nussbaum to 'Expand Her Writing,' Doreen St. Félix Named New TV Critic. May 8, 2020. TheWrap. December 3, 2019.
  4. News: Paid Notice: Deaths Nussbaum, Toby A.. April 15, 2016. The New York Times. January 4, 2006.
  5. News: Toby Nussbaum, 66, Philanthropist and Activist. April 15, 2016. The New York Sun. January 5, 2006.
  6. News: I wasn't a journalism major, but.... April 11, 2016. Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Fall 2011.
  7. News: Milstein. Larry. Nussbaum talks technology, journalism. April 11, 2016. Yale Daily News. October 10, 2013.
  8. News: Creating Television Today: Industry Perspectives . April 11, 2016 . Yale Conference On Television . February 4, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160426185149/http://ontelevision.commons.yale.edu/schedule/ . April 26, 2016.
  9. News: Anaheed. Why Can't I Be You: Emily Nussbaum. 11 April 2016. Rookie. 9 April 2014.
  10. News: French. Lisa. Speaking with: The New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum. April 11, 2016. The Conversation. August 18, 2014.
  11. News: The Emily Nussbaum Interview. April 11, 2016. Zulkey. July 12, 2013.
  12. News: Patel. Nilay. New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum: 'Social watching just sounds like wishful thinking'. April 11, 2016. The Verge. November 16, 2012.
  13. https://twitter.com/emilynussbaum/status/738036873835216896 Nussbaum tweet
  14. News: Doig. Will. Emily Nussbaum. April 15, 2016. Nerve. September 7, 2007.
  15. News: What's 'worth seeing' on TV? Emily Nussbaum knows. Allsop. Jon. November 16, 2017. Columbia Journalism Review. July 22, 2018.
  16. News: Tanzer. Myles. How New York Magazines Approval Matrix Went From The Back Page To TV. April 15, 2016. BuzzFeed. August 13, 2014.
  17. News: Silvarole. Georgie. TV critic Emily Nussbaum fields questions on everything from "Buffy" to "Broad City". April 11, 2016. Newhouse School of Public Communications – Syracuse University. November 11, 2015.
  18. News: Koblin. John. Emily Nussbaum Headed to The New Yorker. April 11, 2016. Women's Wear Daily (WWD). October 13, 2011.
  19. News: Opinion Why everyone is freaking out over Emily Nussbaum's Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Rosenberg. Alyssa. April 18, 2016. The Washington Post. July 22, 2018.
  20. News: Zuckerman. Esther. Emily Nussbaum: What I Read. April 11, 2016. The Wire. October 5, 2012.
  21. News: Simons. Seth. New Yorker Critic Emily Nussbaum on Recurring Dreams and Her Trick For Beating Insomnia. April 11, 2016. Van Winkle's. January 20, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160420054301/https://vanwinkles.com/how-i-sleep-emily-nussbaum. April 20, 2016. dead.
  22. News: Holt. Sid. McCarthy. Margaret. Lowe. Jonathan. National Magazine Awards 2014 Winners Announced. April 19, 2016. MPA – the Association of Magazine Media. May 1, 2014. July 19, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150719142738/http://www.magazine.org/industry-news/press-releases/asme-press-releases/asme/national-magazine-awards-2014-winners#sthash.07FBeH35.dpuf. dead.
  23. Web site: 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced: 'Hamilton' Wins For Drama, AP Wins For Slavery Investigation . Michael . Calderone . . April 18, 2016 . December 27, 2023 . December 27, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231227105610/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pulitzer-prizes-2016_n_5715107be4b06f35cb7024f7 . live.
  24. Web site: Stowell . Olivia . June 26, 2024 . To Be Real: On Emily Nussbaum's "Cue the Sun!" . lareviewofbooks.org.
  25. Web site: Bell . Carole V. . June 25, 2024 . 'Cue the Sun!' is a riveting history of reality TV . NPR.
  26. Web site: Cunningham . Kyndall . 2024-06-26 . Cue The Sun! tackles the splendor and squalor of reality TV . 2024-06-26 . Vox . en-US.
  27. News: Deggans . Eric . 2024-06-26 . Getting Real About Reality TV in 'Cue the Sun!' . 2024-06-26 . The New York Times . en-US . 0362-4331.
  28. Available on website only.
  29. Title in the online table of contents is "Robert Durst's new trial".
  30. Title in the online table of contents is "David Letterman, revolutionary curmudgeon".
  31. Title in the online table of contents is "The savory spectacle of 'Hannibal'".
  32. Title in the online table of contents is "'Getting On' and Aziz Ansari’s 'Master of None'".
  33. On P. Jay Sidney
  34. Online version is titled "One man’s crusade to integrate TV".
  35. Title in the online table of contents is "This season's big dirty dramas".
  36. Online version is titled "The slapstick anarchists of 'Broad City'".
  37. Online version is titled "'Call the Midwife,' a primal procedural".
  38. Online version is titled "Empathy and 'Orange is the New Black'".
  39. Online version is titled "TV dramas of political paranoia".
  40. Online version is titled "The bleakness and joy of 'Bojack Horeseman'".
  41. Online version is titled "Fox News, a melodrama".
  42. Online version is titled "A millennial private eye on 'Search Party'".
  43. Online version is titled "'Feud' : a bittersweet beauty".
  44. Online version is titled "The disciplined power of 'American Crime'".
  45. Online version is titled "The glitzy verve of 'GLOW' and 'Claws'".
  46. Online version is titled "Celebrity delirium on 'The Masked Singer' and 'The Other Two'".
  47. Online version is titled "Middle-school mortification on 'PEN15'".
  48. Online version is titled "TV's reckoning with #MeToo".

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