Emily Nussbaum

Emily Nussbaum
Born 1966 (age 51–52)
United States
Nationality American
Alma mater
Occupation Television critic
Spouse(s) Clive Thompson
Children 2
Parent(s) Bernard Nussbaum

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

Early life

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

Nussbaum graduated from Oberlin College in 1988.[6][7] She went on to get a master's degree in poetry from New York University[8] and started a doctoral program in literature, but decided not to pursue teaching.[3]

Career

After living in Providence, Rhode Island, and Atlanta, Georgia, Nussbaum started her early career writing reviews of TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer[9] and posting at the website Television Without Pity.[10][11][12] She began writing for Lingua Franca and served as editor-in-chief of Nerve.[13] She also wrote for Slate and The New York Times.[3]

Nussbaum then worked at New York magazine, where she was the creator of the "Approval Matrix" feature and wrote about culture and television.[14] She was at New York for seven years and was the culture editor.[15]

In 2011, she became the television critic at The New Yorker,[16] taking over from Nancy Franklin.[17] She won a National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary in 2014 and the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2016.[18]

Personal life

Nussbaum is married to journalist Clive Thompson.[19] They have two children.[20]

Awards

Bibliography

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Essays and reporting

  • Nussbaum, Emily (November 28, 2011). "Crass warfare : raunch and ridicule on 'Whitney' and '2 Broke Girls'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker.
  • — (February 25, 2013). "Shark Week : 'House of Cards,' 'Scandal,' and the political game". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker.
  • — (April 8, 2013). "To stir, with love : the modern cooking show, from 'Hell's Kitchen' to 'Barefoot Contessa'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 89 (8): 86–87.
  • — (May 6, 2013). "Crass roots : 'Veep' grows up". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 89 (12): 72–74.
  • — (June 3, 2013). "L.A. confidential : Steven Soderbergh's gorgeous homage to Liberace". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 89 (16): 68–69.
  • — (June 10–17, 2013). "Trauma Queen : the pulp appeal of 'Law & Order: SVU'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 89 (17): 108–109.
  • — (July 8–15, 2013). "Vice versa : good and bad in 'Orange is the New Black' and 'Ray Donovan'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 89 (20): 90–91.
  • — (July 29, 2013). "Difficult women : how 'Sex and the City' lost its good name". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 89 (22).
  • — (October 7, 2013). "Private practice : the hot-to-trot pleasures of 'Masters of Sex'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker.
  • — (October 28, 2013). "Faint praise : the new network shows, from 'Trophy Wife' to 'The Blacklist'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 89 (34): 80–81.
  • — (November 25, 2013). "Below the belt : comic aggression in 'Moms Mabley' and 'Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 89 (38): 128–129.
  • — (February 10, 2014). "Sweet and low : 'The Fosters' and 'Broad City'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 89 (48): 80–81.
  • — (March 3, 2014). "Cool story, bro : the shallow deep talk of 'True Detective'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 90 (2): 78–79.
  • — (March 31, 2014). "Change agents : breaking code on 'The Americans' and 'Silicon Valley'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 90 (6): 66–68.
  • — (February 23, 2015). "Last girl in Larchmont : Joan Rivers was a survivor of a sexist era : a victim, a rebel, and, finally, an enforcer". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker.
  • — (March 30, 2015). "Candy girl : the bright-pink resilience of 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker.
  • — (May 11, 2015). "The little tramp : the raucous feminist humor of 'Inside Amy Schumer'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker.
  • — (March 7, 2016). "Laverne & Curly : the slapstick anarchists of 'Broad City'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 92 (4): 59–61. [23]
  • — (March 21, 2016). "Swing states : the 'Realpolitik' of 'The Middle'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 92 (6): 102–103.
  • — (May 23, 2016). "Big gulp : drinking and drama on 'Vanderpump Rules'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 92 (15): 82–83.
  • — (June 20, 2016). "Crowning glory : the sneaky radicalism of 'Call the Midwife'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 92 (18): 84–85. [24]
  • — (July 11–18, 2016). "Empathy for the Devil : radical loss on 'Orange is the New Black'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 92 (21): 86–87. [25]
  • — (August 8–15, 2016). "Neigh sayer: the melancholy pleasures of 'Bojack Horseman'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 92 (24): 78–79. [26]
  • — (November 7, 2016). "Fox eats crow : the crisis of Fox News and the rise of Megyn Kelly". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 92 (36): 64–66. [27]
  • — (December 19–26, 2016). "Wikipedia Brown : a millennial private eye on 'Search Party'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 92 (42): 126–127. [28]
  • — (May 1, 2017). "Field notes : the disciplined power of 'American Crime'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 93 (11): 76–77. [29]
  • — (July 3, 2017). "Bling ring : the glitzy verve of 'GLOW' and 'Claws'". The Critics. On Television. The New Yorker. 93 (19): 70–71. [30]

Blog posts and online columns

  • Nussbaum, Emily (November 15, 2011). "'Community' had low ratings. So what?". Culture Desk. The New Yorker.
  • — (November 29, 2011). "'Homeland' : the antidote for '24'". Culture Desk. The New Yorker.
  • — (February 23, 2012). "In defense of Liz Lemon". Culture Desk. The New Yorker.

References

  1. ↑ "Three Pulitzers for New Yorker Writers". The New Yorker. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Rosenberg, Alyssa (18 April 2016). "Why everyone is freaking out over Emily Nussbaum's Pulitzer Prize for criticism". The Washington Post. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 Anaheed (9 April 2014). "Why Can't I Be You: Emily Nussbaum". Rookie. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Paid Notice: Deaths Nussbaum, Toby A." The New York Times. 4 January 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "Toby Nussbaum, 66, Philanthropist and Activist". The New York Sun. 5 January 2006. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "I wasn't a journalism major, but..." Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Fall 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  7. ↑ Milstein, Larry (10 October 2013). "Nussbaum talks technology, journalism". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Creating Television Today: Industry Perspectives". Yale Conference On Television. February 4, 2012. Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  9. ↑ French, Lisa (18 August 2014). "Speaking with: The New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum". The Conversation. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "The Emily Nussbaum Interview". Zulkey. 12 July 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  11. ↑ Patel, Nilay (16 November 2012). "New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum: 'Social watching just sounds like wishful thinking'". The Verge. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  12. ↑ Nussbaum tweet, 2 June 2016
  13. ↑ Doig, Will (7 September 2007). "Emily Nussbaum". Nerve. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  14. ↑ Allsop, Jon (November 16, 2017). "What's 'worth seeing' on TV? Emily Nussbaum knows". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  15. ↑ Tanzer, Myles (13 August 2014). "How New York Magazine's Approval Matrix Went From The Back Page To TV". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  16. ↑ Silvarole, Georgie (11 November 2015). "TV critic Emily Nussbaum fields questions on everything from "Buffy" to "Broad City"". Newhouse School of Public Communications - Syracuse University. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  17. ↑ Koblin, John (13 October 2011). "Emily Nussbaum Headed to The New Yorker". Women's Wear Daily (WWD). Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  18. ↑ Rosenberg, Alyssa (April 18, 2016). "Opinion | Why everyone is freaking out over Emily Nussbaum's Pulitzer Prize for criticism". Washington Post. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  19. ↑ Zuckerman, Esther (5 October 2012). "Emily Nussbaum: What I Read". The Wire. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  20. ↑ Simons, Seth (20 January 2016). "New Yorker Critic Emily Nussbaum on Recurring Dreams and Her Trick For Beating Insomnia". Van Winkle's. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  21. ↑ Holt, Sid; McCarthy, Margaret; Lowe, Jonathan (1 May 2014). "National Magazine Awards 2014 Winners Announced". MPA - the Association of Magazine Media. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  22. ↑ "The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Criticism. For distinguished criticism, using any available journalistic tool, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000). Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker". Pulitzer Prize. 2016. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  23. ↑ Online version is titled "The slapstick anarchists of 'Broad City'".
  24. ↑ Online version is titled "'Call the Midwife,' a primal procedural".
  25. ↑ Online version is titled "Empathy and 'Orange is the New Black'".
  26. ↑ Online version is titled "The bleakness and joy of 'Bojack Horeseman'".
  27. ↑ Online version is titled "Fox News, a melodrama".
  28. ↑ Online version is titled "A millennial private eye on 'Search Party'".
  29. ↑ Online version is titled "The disciplined power of 'American Crime'".
  30. ↑ Online version is titled "The glitzy verve of 'GLOW' and 'Claws'".
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