Please come to a launch reading for Melissa Broder’s Scarecrone and Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment on March 27th at 7:30 at Skylight Books, 1818 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles. Sure to be the L.A. book launch event of the season!
I write a bit about Durbin’s new book in my essay Conceptual Writing: The L.A. Brand.
In Scarecrone, Melissa Broder deepens her self-aware and dark brand of poetry, which The Chicago Tribune says “risks the divine” and Flavorwire calls “unbelievable and overwhelming for its imaginative power alone.” Publishers Weekly says her work is “as funny and hip as it is disturbing.”
The full-length version of Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment sparkles with the static of TV personalities, the privileged dramas of MTV’s The Hills and Bravo’s Real Housewives, the public tragedies of Amanda Knox and Anna Nicole Smith. Kate Durbin traces the migratory patterns of the flightiest members of our televised demimonde, from the vacant bedrooms of the Playboy Mansion to the modern gothic set of Kim Kardashian’s fairytale wedding, rendering a fabulous, fallen world in a language of diamond-studded lavishness.
Continue reading Kate Durbin & Melissa Broder | Skylight Books, March 27th