“Post-truth” may not be the first phrase that comes to mind when you think of Jay Manuel, America’s Next Top Model creative director and on-air staple. And yet the label fits his new novel The Wig, the Bitch, and the Meltdown like couture. Consider the layers of reality at work, and then consider how one obscures the next. Manuel’s book is a fictionalized rendering of a show that presented a contorted version of modeling world, which itself is a bizarro version of the real life in which the majority of the world’s population functions. The effect is as disorienting as an infinity mirror that distorts as it expands. At a certain point, you don’t know what you’re looking at.
of himself holding a mug inscribed with the hashtag #WhoIsKeishaKash. The answer seems obvious: She’s Tyra Banks. However, Manuel, who departed the show after Cycle 18 , claims he didn’t have Banks in mind when writing the character.
“I was going against some literary conventions and it was a big risk in blurring some lines and breaking the fourth wall with that kind of metafictional mechanism I have in the last third of the book, but it was a something I wanted to do,” he said of his craft. He calls his book “an identity piece.” He says he was mentored by a creative nonfiction writer with no background in reality TV, thus providing a fresh springboard for the world he was creating. Or recreating. Or whatever.
became increasingly difficult as the demands of sponsors and executive producers became louder. Overall the imperative was for“There were certain things that I feel weren’t fully thought through,” he conceded, pointing to an Adam and Eve-themed photoshoot in Cycle 2 that he says offended people. He toldthat a race-swapping shoot in Cycle 4 that effectively featured blackface on a white model made him uncomfortable at the time of shooting, but that it was out of his hands.
“In the case of Kayla, it’s all how that whole scene and the scene after is edited,” he continued. “I didn’t know about her sexual assault. The producers didn’t know about it, either. It is one of those cases where it evolved on camera and then in the way it was constructed in the edit, it looks like I’m coercing her to do this. Actually, I said to her, ‘You don’t have to do this.
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