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“It is the reaction to seeing act-based reality, as when ‘Saturday Night Live’ essentially reenacts White House press conferences, or when late-night comedians offer up what amounts to straightforward reportage and analysis.

Yet the Londoner says he always saw this work as a way to finance his real passion - reportage and documentary, which also features heavily in the exhibition.

She ended up writing, she says, a "reportage of the heart".

None of this reportage, however, addressed the most pertinent question about the feat, which is: So what?

Unlike other notable entries, including David Wallace Adams’ “Education for Extinction” and Bill Vaughn’s “The Plot Against Native America,” Pember’s book blends her research and reportage with memoir.