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In Lucas Mann's trademark vein - fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating - Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of watching "real" people bare their souls in search of celebrity. Captive Audience resides at the intersection of popular culture with the personal; the exhibitionist impulse, with the schadenfreude of the vicarious....