Nussbaum on how ‘Buffy’ turned her into a Pulitzer Prize–winning television critic, the legacy of ‘The Sopranos,’ and how she manages to stay interested in TV.

  Michael Kupperman’s work traffics in one-off and absurdist premises and is immersed in a certain kind of Americana nostalgia. His ongoing series Tales Designed to Thrizzle, which comprises eight issues collected in two volumes, features joke…