Wednesday, May 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 CLICK HERE TO RSVP _**RSVP is recommended but not required. Entry and seating are first-come, first-served. RSVPs do not guarantee entry to a full event.**_ This is an offsite event that will be meeting at The Hoxton Hotel's rooftop Innana Bar in Downtown LA. _**The Bachelor**_ **franchise has been around for over two decades and amassed an army of fans across its four shows. While contestants battle to prove they're here for the right reasons, Bachelor Nation is confronting their own question--_Why are we here and why can't we stop watching?_** Devout franchise fans Ilana Masad and Stevie Seibert Desjarlais pose the big questions to Bachelor Nation: Who are we? What does the franchise mean to us? And seriously, why on earth can we not stop watching? For years, fans of the _Bachelor_ franchise have laughed with and at contestants; cried along with their heartbreaks; tuned in again and again each season despite feeling betrayed by producer and contestant decisions alike; and celebrated, alone and together, the love (or loveless) lives of perfect strangers on our television screens. And we wonder, _really_, why? With reality TV broadly characterized as "trash TV," why are so many intelligent, funny, and critical people watching and discussing it? _Here For All the Reasons_ seeks to answer this question, diving into the complex negotiations of gender, racial, and class politics that arise within the fandom. This anthology is a polyvocal exploration of Bachelor Nation _for_ Bachelor Nation. So, will you accept our rose and join the chat? **Ilana Masad** is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and criticism whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Atlantic, and many more. She holds a doctorat from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is the author of the novels _All My Mother’s Lovers_ and, most recently, _Beings._ **Carolyn Huynh** loves writing about messy Asian women who never learn from their mistakes. The Fortunes of Jaded Women, her debut novel, was a Good Morning America book club pick and selected as one of the best books of 2022 by NPR. Her sophomore book, The Family Recipe, came out in spring 2025, and her third book is forthcoming fall 2026. After living up and down the west coast, she now resides in Los Angeles with her partner and her demon girl dog. When she’s not writing, Carolyn daydreams about having iced coffee on a rooftop in Ho Chi Minh City. **Alana Hope Levinson** is a features editor at WIRED, focused on longform narrative journalism about technology and culture. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, New York Magazine, GQ, Dwell, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. **Julia Moser** is a writer and Emmy-winning producer who’s worked on shows including Good Morning America and AM to DM from BuzzFeed News. She holds an MFA in screenwriting from UCLA, and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Betches, and elsewhere. Julia is perhaps best known for going viral in the spring of 2020 for getting dumped on Zoom, prompting The Guardian to coin the term “zumped.” Julia lives in Los Angeles with her partner, dog, cat, and so many plants. **Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais** is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Her teaching and research interests include representations of gender, race, and class in US literature, film, and pop culture. Her writing appears in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Pedagogy. Even though she now lives in Nebraska—with her husband and animals—Stevie is a Southern Californian at heart. **Renée Reizman** is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Los Angeles. She writes about arts and culture for publications like The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Observer. She was nominated for Art and Design Critic of the Year at the 2024 National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and was a California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow from 2023 to 2024. Currently, she teaches visual communication design and community-engaged art at Pepperdine University and the University of Southern California. Find her at https://reneereizman.com and on Instagram at @reneereizman. **Joy Alicia** is the author of So Drunk a Tooth’s Gotta Go and the founder of Online Dating Savior, a dating coaching service. She’s also the host of The Worstship podcast. Her work has been published in Newsweek, Daily Mail, Blavity, Metro UK, The Bold Italic and more. Joy has performed stand-up comedy in California, Texas, and Oregon, captivating audiences with her observational humor. She currently calls Southern California home, where she lives with her dog, who she’s convinced pretends to have an avoidant attachment style to score extra treats.