Danielle J. Lindemann

Interviews with me and selected media coverage of my work

Reality TV:

• Did a Q&A with Vox about reality TV, influencing, and MAGA politics (12.19.25)
• Spoke to USA Today about reality TV and politics (11.15.25)
• Appeared on the Mental Health Supra Omnia podcast to discuss America’s obsession with reality TV (10.27.25)
• True Story is referenced in a piece on Literary Hub (8.27.25)
• Interviewed on the 2 Black Girls, 1 Rose Podcast (7.31.25)
• Spoke to the the BBC  about the impact of The Osbournes (7.26.25)
• Spoke to the the BBC  about the positive aspects of reality TV (7.25.25)
• Interviewed about reality TV and politics for Connecticut Public Radio’s The Colin McEnroe Show (7.24.25)
• Spoke to The New York Times about MTV’s Road Rules (7.16.25)
• Spoke to GQ about why men watch Love Island (7.12.25)
• Spoke to The New York Times about our cultural obsession with Love Island (7.7.25)
• Q&A about reality stars and tax evasion on Ruth Braunstein’s Substack (6.26.25)
• Interview about why we’re so obsessed with reality TV, on the “Behavior Bitches” podcast (6.9.25)
• Spoke to the Associated Press about reality TV… and the Pope! (5.20.25)
• Spoke to USA Today about the Trump presidency’s intersection with politics (4.29.25)
• Commentator on VICE Media’s “The Dark Side of Reality TV” Series:
  • S1, E4, “The Surreal Life” 
• Interview on the “Ologies” podcast with Alie Ward (3.5.25)
• Interview with the BBC about how reality TV has aged (2.27.25)
• Spoke to The Los Angeles Times about the connection between reality TV and MAGA politics (1.20.25)
• Spoke to The Times of London about Jerry Springer (1.2.25)
• True Story is mentioned in British Vogue (8.10.24)
• Spoke to The New York Times about the reality TV-themed video game “Crush House” (8.9.24)
• Interviewed about True Story on the “Good Is in the Details” podcast (8.6.24)
• Spoke to The New York Times about reality TV’s legal reckoning (6.9.24)
• Spoke to The Wrap about Baby Reindeer and why we watch reality TV (5.1.24)
• Quoted in this piece in The Conversation about The Traitors (4.30.24)
• Interviewed about real-estate reality TV for The New York Times (4.28.24)
• Spoke to the Associated Press about O.J. Simpson and reality TV (4.11.24)
• Interviewed about Andy Cohen and the Bravo network for the Los Angeles Times (4.3.24)
• Interviewed about The Bachelor for Yahoo! News (3.27.24)
• Took listener calls about reality TV on the radio show “Just Asking” (Canada) (3.9.24)
• Interviewed about reality TV for the “Mina AF” podcast (3.5.24)
  • Interview referenced in People magazine (3.6.24)
• Interviewed for BBC Culture about The Traitors (2.8.24)
• Interviewed about The Simple Life for The Cut (11.25.23)
• Interviewed about reality TV for Connecticut Public Radio’s The Colin McEnroe Show (11.10.23)
• Interviewed about the show Kitchen Nightmares for The AV Club (9.25.23)
• Invited guest on the UConn Humanities Institutes’s PopCast podcast (9.19.23)
• Interviewed about gay dating shows for the Huffington Post (9.11.23)
• Interviewed for The 19th about the connection between reality TV and politics (8.25.23)
• Interviewed for The 19th about race in reality TV (8.21.23)
• Interview about The Real Housewives in Women’s Health Magazine (8.21.23)
• Commentator on National Geographic’s “Rewind the 90’s” Series:
  • S1, E6, “What Is Love?” (8.14.23)
  • S1, E8, “Reality Revolution” (8.21.23)
  • S1, E9, “Girl Power” (8.28.23)
• Interview about True Story on the “Pivot” podcast (7.10.23)
• Interviewed about reality TV for the Amazon Prime docuseries “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” 
  • Quoted in a Washington Post piece about the docuseries.
  • Quoted in a TIME piece about the docuseries.
  • Quoted in a Yahoo! News piece about the docuseries.
• Interview about True Story on Texas Public Radio’s “The Source” (5.25.23)
• Interviewed about Jerry Springer and reality TV, for Yahoo! News (4.28.23)
• Interviewed about what draws us to reality TV, for USA Today (4.14.23)
• Interviewed about the show “Love Is Blind” for The New York Times (4.12.23)
• True Story listed as one of “Six New Paperbacks to Read This Week” in The New York Times‘s “Paperback Row” (2.10.23)
• Interview about reality-TV family the Chrisleys going to prison, in The Washington Post (1.19.23)
• True Story featured in Literary Hub’s “What to Read Next Based on Your New Year’s Resolutions“ (1.5.23)
• Interview about True Story on the New Lines Magazine’s “Wider Angle” podcast (12.28.22)
• True Story is on Esquire’s list of “Best Nonfiction Books of 2022” (12.12.22)
• Interviewed about The Real Housewives and sports for Fashion Journal (Australia) (12.12.22)
• True Story is one of Behavioral Scientist’s “Notable Books of 2022“ (12.7.22)
• True Story is one of Esquire’s “40 Best Books of 2022 (So Far)” (11.04.22)
• Interviewed about reality TV “confessionals” for The Cut (10.19.22)
• Profile of me and True Story in the Lehigh Valley Press News (9.23.22)
• Interview about True Story (and “Book of the Day”) on the New Books Network (9.13.22)
• Interview about True Story on the “Curious State” podcast (8.9.22)
• True Story is on Bloomberg’s The Readout: What We’re Reading This Summer (8.6.22)
• Interview about True Story on PIX11’s “New York Living” (7.21.22)
• True Story is on Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List (7.1.22)
• True Story is one of The Irish Independent‘s “Best Books to Read on Your Summer Holiday” (Ireland) (6.25.22)
• Interview about True Story on the WNPR radio show/podcast “Disrupted” (6.8.22)
• True Story reviewed in The Nation (6.8.22)
• Interview about reality TV for Le Temps (Switzerland) (6.4.22)
• Interview about True Story on Think on KERA (6.3.22)
• True Story reviewed in Spectrum Culture (5.28.22)
• Interview about True Story on the Slate podcast “The Waves” (5.19.22)
• Interview about True Story on the “Housewives and Me” podcast (Ireland) (5.17.22)
• Interview about True Story on WHYY’s “Radio Times“ (4.22.22)
• Interview about the rise of reality TV for the “History of the 90’s” podcast (4.20.22)
• Interview about True Story on the “Have You Heard About…” podcast (4.14.22)
• Interview about True Story on the “So Bad It’s Good” podcast (4.13.22)
• Interview about True Story on NPR’s “It’s Been a Minute” (4.5.22)
• True Story is one of WIRED‘S “15 Books You Need to Read This Summer” (4.4.22)
• Interview about True Story on the Dave Fanning show (Ireland) (4.2.22)
• Interview about True Story on The Majority Report (3.31.22)
• Interview about True Story on “Brain Candy” podcast (3.31.22)
• “From Hollywood’s Illusion Factory, Some Unexpected Reality.” Associated Press. (3.29.22)
• “Modern Dating Has Changed. 20 Years Later, ‘The Bachelor’ Hasn’t.” CNN. (3.25.22)
• Interview about True Story on the Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour (3.25.22) (Interview was listed in the Best of the L.A. Review of Books Radio Hour 2022.)
  
• True Story is one of “4 Books You Should Read in 2022,” on UrbanMatter (3.24.22)
• Interview about True Story in the Columbia University alumni magazine (3.15.22)
• Interview about True Story on “Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan” (New Zealand) (3.14.22)
• Interview about True Story on WGN News Chicago (3.11.22)
• Interview about True Story on Moncrieff (Ireland) (3.10.22)
• Interview about True Story on The Social (Canada) (2.28.22)
• True Story is one of Esquire’s “15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 (So Far)” (2.26.22)
• Interview about True Story on the “Love to See It” podcast (2.25.22)
• Interview about True Story on All of It With Alison Stewart (2.22.22)
• True Story is one of “5 Hot Books” in The National Book Review (2.16.22)
• True Story reviewed in The Washington Post (2.16.22)
• “Reality TV ‘Peels Back Our Collective Skin.’ What’s Underneath Isn’t Pretty” (a profile of True Story in Jezebel) (2.15.22). 
• Interview about True Story for “The Power of Us” blog (2.15.22)
• True Story reviewed in the Chicago Review of Books (2.15.22)
• Interview on ABC News, discussing True Story (2.15.22)
• “What Reality TV Reveals about Motherhood” (an adapted excerpt from True Story in The Atlantic) (2.13.22)
• True Story, reviewed in The New York Times (2.12.22)
• Interview with Marketplace about True Story (2.9.22)
• True Story is one of 12 “Must-Read Books of February” in the Chicago Review of Books (2.1.22)
• True Story is one of Thrillist’s “27 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Winter” (1.25.22)
• The AV Club recommends True Story as one of “Five Books to Read in February” (1.25.22)
• True Story, on Vulture’s list of “49 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2022” (1.6.22)
• True Story is listed as a “Most Anticipated Book of 2022” by Literary Hub (1.5.22)
• True Story reviewed in Library Journal (10.1.21)
• True Story reviewed in Publishers Weekly (10.21)
• “‘F-Boy Island,’ “Ex-Rated,’ and the Rise of Risque Reality TV” The Wall Street Journal (8.6.21)
• True Story is a Library Journal editor’s pick (8.4.21)
• “TLC Has Canceled the Duggars Again…” The Washington Post (7.30.21)
• “Can Reality Shows Help Lead the Way for Inclusivity?” BBC (1.15.21)
• “Why No Sex Is the New Sex on Reality TV,” Rolling Stone (5.12.20)
• “The Biggest Loser Gets a Makeover…,” The Washington Post (12.13.19)
• “Do Trump Impeachment Hearings Need Boffo Ratings…,” The Philadelphia Inquirer (11.12.19)
• “How MTV’s Are You the One? Is Changing Dating Shows,” Rolling Stone (8.30.19)
• “How Reality TV Took Over Politics,” CNN (7.12.18)
• “What Reality TV Taught Trump, According to Professors Who Study It,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (2.15.17)

Commuter Spouses:

• “The End of Long-Distance Relationships,” Axios (7.27.21)
• “Married, but Living Far Apart,” The New York Times (5.16.20)
• “Living Apart for Work,” Harvard Business Review (9.19)
• “PAWcast: Sociologist Danielle Lindemann ’02 on Commuter Spouses,” Princeton Alumni Weekly (7.3.19)
• “Do Long-Distance Relationships Work?,” The Atlantic (5.14.19)
• “The Surprisingly Strong Relationships of Commuter Couples,” BBC Capital (4.15.19)
• “Commuter Spouses,” Inside Higher Ed (3.29.19)
• “The Long-Distance Marriage That’s Built to Last,” The Wall Street Journal (8.14.18)
• “The Rise of Long-Distance Marriage,” The Economist (12.19.17)
• “Are Commuter Marriages Healthy?” U.S. News & World Report (6.15.17)

Artistic Careers:

• “Like Pretty Much Every Industry, Music Has a Huge Gender Wage Gap…,” The Washington Post (7.13.18)
• “The Mistake of Seeing only Some Jobs as Creative,” Quartz (10.31.17)
• “Teaching Newsletter: How Useful Is Creativity?” Chronicle of Higher Education (10.12.17)
• “The Gender Wage Gap in the Arts,” National Public Radio’s Morning Edition (12.7.16)
• “A Field Where Working Moms Aren’t Punished,” The Atlantic (7.33.16)
• “Women in the Arts Get Paid Less Too,” Pacific Standard (11.15.16)

Earned Sick Days in the Workplace:

• “NJ Cities Pass Paid Sick-Leave Laws…,” Wall Street Journal (4.15.15)