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. 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. "Even more surreal than what we get on TV, and also subversively funny." -XO Jane "Durbin elevates petty O.C. arguments between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag to the status of serious literature." -Nylon "Durbin breaks down reality television and transcribes it into a vivarium of microdetail. The scripted moments of the Real Housewives shows transform into something else entirely when beamed from televised drama into ecosystems of language, fashion, and class." --Bookish "There is no one sporting hypermediaflesh like Kate Durbin's. 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." --Blake Butler, author of Sky Saw "Kate Durbin is the brilliant combination of Warhol and Warhollian superstar--both pop satirist and performance artist. Courtroom defiant La Lohan, the clownish pathos of Anna Nicole Smith: these are Durbin's Jackie O's and car crashes. E! Entertainment, is both rapturous and ravaging of pop culture, sending up the paparazzi's glare, the vampiric obsession with the lives of reality starlets, endlessly reported on E! news by fakebaked anchors with colgate smiles." --Kate Zambreno, author of Heroines "By recounting the actions of women from Lindsey Lohan to the Basketball Wives in matter-of-fact, objective language, Durbin actively does not make judgments about them--and in doing so calls attention to the types of criticisms regularly lauded at women in the public eye. Durbin's book reassesses a culture that at once fixates on public images of women--voyeuristically watching their lives for entertainment--while simultaneously mocking, dismissing and condescending to them." --Bitch "Durbin looks past the snobbish dismissal of reality tv to study Kim Kardashian's nuptials and Anna Nicole's trials and, secretly, all of our tribulations. Durbin's anti-satire demands to be read and read again, lest the paparazzi flashes blind you from seeing your own reflection." --Adult Magazine