“Some blame reality TV for our social woes (MTV’s “Real World” encourages alcoholism, “The Apprentice” is a guide to corporate backstabbing, blah, blah, blah). Allow me to chime in and add my voice to the chorus: Reality television, in part, intensifies our voyeuristic appetite for the tawdry details of the lives of others. On television, we call those details trash (although suit-wearing executives at TV stations call them “rating boosters”). But in book form, it’s more likely to be deemed literature.”