{"id":260,"date":"2014-03-20T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/?p=260"},"modified":"2014-03-27T18:23:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T01:23:44","slug":"kate-durban-melissa-broder-book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/2014\/03\/20\/kate-durban-melissa-broder-book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate Durbin & Melissa Broder | Skylight Books, March 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please come to a launch reading for Melissa Broder’s Scarecrone<\/a> and Kate Durbin’s E! Entertainment<\/a> on March 27th at 7:30 at Skylight Books<\/a>,\u00a01818 N Vermont Ave,\u00a0Los Angeles. Sure to be the L.A. book launch event of the season!<\/p>\n

I write a bit about Durbin’s new book in my essay Conceptual Writing: The L.A. Brand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In Scarecrone<\/strong>, Melissa Broder deepens her self-aware and dark brand of poetry, which The Chicago Tribune says \u201crisks the divine\u201d and Flavorwire calls \u201cunbelievable and overwhelming for its imaginative power alone.\u201d Publishers Weekly says her work is “as funny and hip as it is disturbing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The full-length version of Kate Durbin\u2019s E! Entertainment<\/strong> sparkles with the static of TV personalities, the privileged dramas of MTV\u2019s The Hills and Bravo\u2019s 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\u2019s fairytale wedding, rendering a fabulous, fallen world in a language of diamond-studded lavishness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Praise for Melissa Broder<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBroder reminds us that we come from the womb, but there\u2019s no returning thereto.\u201d\u2014American Book Review<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you listen past the weird, you can hear all sorts of things: sadness, seriousness, life, death, and a whole lot of laughter \u2026 Broder is a tremendous talent.\u201d\u2014Flavorwire<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the core of Broder\u2019s poems is hunger, the drive to consume or destroy, an instinctual void as visceral as it is absurd.\u201d\u2014The Rumpus<\/p>\n

\u201cMelissa Broder performs a kind of literary augury few poets have the stamina for \u2026 Broder\u2019s insight and honesty will make your brain light up and your hair stand on end.\u201d\u2014The Examiner<\/p>\n

\u201cBroder\u2019s poems beam oracle energy. They pump a music of visions for the life-lusty death dance.\u201d-BOMB<\/p>\n

Praise for Kate Durbin<\/strong>‘s E! Entertainment<\/p>\n

\u201cKate Durbin is pop culture\u2019s stenographer. E! Entertainment ingeniously peers inside the television static, revealing the many fictions that make up our reality, and the many realities which make up our fictions. It\u2019s also a lot of fun to read. I love it.\u201d\u2014Heidi Montag, star of MTV\u2019s The Hills<\/p>\n

\u201cSince it\u2019s clear that ours is a Golden Age of TV it makes perfect sense that it might be a perfect moment for some Golden Age-type writing on reality television. Boom! That\u2019s what you get in Durbin\u2019s yummy delve into housewives, sexy sirens, lonesome doomed doves, and other boys and girls behaving badly but always with a sense of power.\u201d\u2014Jerry Saltz, senior art critic, New York Magazine<\/p>\n

“There is no one sporting hypermediaflesh like Kate Durbin\u2019s. With E! Entertainment she strips the TV image from its old curves, reupholstering 2D-packed pixelshit into clipped components, sentences, where somehow less surrounded they take on the shape of psychically deformed wallpaper. These are our icon baths hobbling toward you, reciting script-prayer in mime of sleep, and now Durbin is their lord.”\u2014Blake Butler, author of the novel Sky Saw<\/p>\n

A recent transplant from Brooklyn, Melissa Broder now lives in Los Angeles, CA where she continues her work as assistant director of publicity and social media at Penguin Random House. Broder’s poems appear or are forthcoming in Guernica, Fence, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, et al. Her previous books are Meat Heart and When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother.<\/p>\n

Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles based writer and artist. She is the author of The Ravenous Audience (Akashic), and co-author of Abra, an artist\u2019s book and interactive iPad app created with the help of a NEA grant from Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. Durbin is founding editor of the online pop cultural criticism journal, Gaga Stigmata; her tumblr project, Women as Objects, archives the teen girl tumblr aesthetic.<\/p>\n

MELISSA BRODER reads from SCARECRONE and KATE DURBIN reads from E! ENTERTAINMENT | Skylight Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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,\u00a01818 N Vermont Ave,\u00a0Los 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 … Continue reading Kate Durbin & Melissa Broder | Skylight Books, March 27th<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[44,6],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-launch","tag-book-launch-2","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/iPrincess_KateDurbin.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4riuZ-4c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arras.net\/wordpress-melt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}