Interviews with me and selected media coverage of my work
Reality TV:
- 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 “Wider Angle” podcast (12.28.22)
- True Story is on Esquire’s final 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)