Johannes Gorannson on E! Entertainment

Johannes Goransson calls "Anna Nicole Show" from my chapbook E! Entertainment: "breathtaking...a frightening piece of carnivalesque that refuses easy distinctions between simulacra and 'reality,' 'reality TV' and heart-break. Very powerful." Read more here.

I pretty much die for every Action Book.

Second Preview of TUMBLR IS THE ONY PLACE I DON'T PRETEND I'M OKAY

to be premiered at Totem in Brooklyn, NY...

I HEART REALITY TV in burnaway magazine

Blake Butler asked me to write a piece about art for his series at Burnaway, an online art mag out of Atlanta. I wrote a short manifesto about why reality TV is the greatest art medium in the world.

A couple of other mentions in a more bizarre vein:

Art Fag City thinks I'm an annoying hipster (though maybe in a "they really like me" way?).

Bambi Muse is worried that if Israel defeats Palestine I won't be able to wear my baby blue lipstick anymore.

Women as Objects In Your Digital Daily

Daniel Jones did a great write up of my tumblr project Women as Objects for Your Digital Daily. Please check it out. And check out Women as Objects here.

"Being a kid is harder work than it looks; it isn't just about the politics of re-blogging. Los Angeles author and artist Kate Durbin has recently begun exploring the virtual world of teen girls, experienced through the medium of tumblr aesthetics." -Daniel Jones

 

More vanity...

 Someone whose name shall remain unnamed made a tumblr fansite for me. I'm totes honored.

Featherless Reading Feb. 10th @ Stories Books in Echo Park

8-9 pm, back patio
(bring a coat)

1716 SUNSET BLVD., Los Angeles, CA 90026

EDWARD GAUVIN
KATE DURBIN
CAMILLE ROY

read tonight!
...
The winner of the John Dryden Translation prize, Edward Gauvin has received fellowships and residencies from the NEA, the Fulbright Program, the Centre National du Livre, and the American Literary Translators' Association. His volume of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s selected stories, A Life on Paper (Small Beer, 2010) won the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award and was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. Other translations have appeared in Tin House, Subtropics, The Harvard Review, The Southern Review, AGNI Online, and PEN America. The contributing editor for Francophone comics at Words Without Borders, he translates comics for Top Shelf, Archaia, and Lerner.

Writing under the name H.V. Chao, his fiction has previously been published in Epiphany, Nanoism, and Diet Soap. He is a first year fiction PhD student at USC.

Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based writer and performance artist. Her books include The Ravenous Audience (Akashic Books), E! Entertainment (Insert/Blanc Press Diamond Edition, forthcoming), Gaga Stigmata (Zg Press, forthcoming), The Fashion Issue (Zg Press, forthcoming), and, with Amaranth Borsuk, ABRA (Zg Press, forthcoming).

Camille Roy is a writer and performer of fiction, poetry, and plays. Her book, Sherwood Forest came out in 2011 from Futurepoem. She co-edited Biting The Error: Writers Explore Narrative, a book of essays by writers on their own experimental practices (CoachHouse). Her books include Cheap Speech, a play, from Leroy, and Craquer, a fictional autobiography from 2nd Story Books , as well as Swarm (two novellas, Black Star Series). Earlier books include The Rosy Medallions (poetry and prose, from Kelsey St Press) and Cold Heaven (plays, from Leslie Scalapino's O Books). She was a founding editor of the online journal Narrativity (http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/narrativity). Roy has taught creative writing in multiple genres and forms at several institutions, including San Francisco State University, California State University SummerArts, and Naropa.

Exciting! Exciting!

Pics and Write Up of TAN FAT Salon / The Dog Show in papermag

There's a fun write up of the salon I read at at The Dog Show USA the other night in papermag, along with some awesome pics. The entire event was so dreamy. Pink cake + flowers everywhere + pillow necklaces a la TAN FAT + exploding unicorn heads + lavender champagne + silk bedsheets (I read in bed) + goth lyfe coaching a la Claire Cronin + 90's sportswear. What a dream!

Here's a poster Tim Jones-Yelvington made for our upcoming reading at AWP. I'll be doing three readings at AWP--on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights, and I'll have a different outfit/performance/reading for each night as well as different, all totally brilliant co-horts for each reading, too. More information on the whole she-bang coming soon. Hope to see you there! xoKate