Pretty Ladies in Manhattan

Coming soon: There's a book of essays by Emily Nussbaum, a Pulitzer-winning critic who writes about TV. Nussbaum is proudly iconoclastic--she wasn't wild about the buzzy show "Homecoming," for example--and she also smartly calls attention to shows by women. Famously, she defended "Sex and the City" from a critic who called it "just a trifle about pretty ladies in Manhattan." Nussbaum argued that SATC was a tricky, nuanced show with a provocative anti-heroine at its center.

I don't often love books of essays, but I'll skim Nussbaum. For sure.

Enjoy!