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Hi I'm LeVar Burton, and this is LeVar Burton reads.

In every episode I handpick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.

The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them.

Man, I hope you will too. to reality television,

television, y'all.

Whether or not you're a fan of the housewives or the

Cardassians or top chef.

Whether you look down your nose at the drama or you are absolutely sucked in,

you cannot deny that reality TV has fully permeated our everyday experience.

It's just that popular.

It can inform the way we talk, the way we act, even how we make choices about relationships.

This unscripted television has given us scripts for how to live our lives. Today's story is a fun and sly look at a reality

TV producer who ends up taking her work home.

It's called the November story and it's from the collection Music for wartime

written by Rebecca Mackay and published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group.

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