Overview
- Escape! is out today through Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, and is available widely.
- After early drafts from a producer’s viewpoint, Fishbach rewrote the book to foreground contestants following graduate-school feedback.
- The story examines who shapes a contestant’s public narrative, the psychological effects of participation, and the off-camera lives of producers.
- Fishbach says the book is fiction rather than memoir, informed by interviews with producers and contestants across the reality-TV landscape.
- While peppered with Survivor Easter eggs, he frames the themes to speak to readers interested in image and storytelling beyond reality TV fandom.