Are you a last-minute Christmas gift-giver? Do you owe belated Chanukah and Solstice presents? Well, take it from Feministing, Isak, Hello Ladies and Women’s Voices for Change: Reality Bites Back makes the perfect gift!

I wrote the book to spark a national conversation about the meaning and impact of reality TV on our culture, and in doing so I hoped to make media literacy not only enlightening, but fun. So, I’m really excited to see Reality Bites Back popping up on holiday gift guides by respected media outlets and blogs who seem to find the book engaging and enjoyable. I’m also gratified and flattered to see the book recommended by readers on Twitter as “The Must-Have Book This Season” and discussed as good holiday reading options on Facebook by professors who say, “I’ve read it, I’ve taught it, Jenn has been in LA to discuss it — I’m all about it. If you haven’t yet, go get it!”

At Feministing, the book tops Courtney Martin’s “Not Oprah’s Book Club: Holiday Edition” gift guide:

Quick hit (more details when I’m not deadly exhausted): I’m doing two events in San Francisco and one in L.A. this week. Hope to see you there!

• Monday, Nov. 15, 8-10pm: “Project Brainwash” lecture at the Academy of Art Institute, 491 Post St., San Francisco, CA.

• Tuesday, Nov. 16, noon: “Whose Reality? Exposing Gender, Race and Commercial Biases in Reality TV,” a conversation with Jennifer Seibel Newsom, actress, filmmaker and First Lady of San Francisco, and Jennifer L. Pozner,

  author

  of Reality Bites Back and founder and director of Women In Media & News. Held at San Francisco’s International Museum of Women. Tickets: $15 regular, $10 members, $5 students & low-income To purchase tickets, please visit http://imow.org/calendar/index

• Wednesday, Nov. 17, 7:30 – 9:30pm: “Sh*t My TV Says: Revealing Gender and Race in Reality TV,” a Reality Bites Back reading and public discussion with entertainment journalist Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn, moderated by activist Morgane Richardson. Held at Stories bookstore, 1716 Sunset Blvd (in Echo Park), Los Angeles, CA.

More details mid-day Monday