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Kate Durbin is the author of the poetry collections The Ravenous Audience (Black Goat Press/Akashic, 2009), The Fashion Issue (Zg Press, forthcoming), and, with Amaranth Borsuk, ABRA (Zg Press, forthcoming), as well as five chapbooks. She is founding editor of Gaga Stigmata: Critical Writings and Art About Lady Gaga. Find her on the web at www.katedurbin.blogspot.com, and gagajournal.blogspot.com.

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The Hills

I am just about done transcribing the epic fight scene between Heidi and
Lauren on The Hills. The fight scene alone (about 4 minutes of screen
time) has taken multiple hours a day for the past two weeks to write. I
have had a transcendent experience with The Hills, akin to the
experience Cixous describes when meditating on a Rembrandt. I am not
kidding. "It's reality! It's reality!" -Audrina

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Books by Kate Durbin

Average rating: 4.78 · 64 ratings · 13 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Ravenous Audience by Kate Durbin (Goodreads Author), Chris Abani (Editor) 4.54 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	E! Entertainment 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Fragments Found in a 1937 Aviator's Boot 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	FASHIONWHORE 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	narrative (dis)continuities: prose experiments by younger american writers by Kristina Marie Darling (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elisa Gabbert (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Brandi Homan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Loudest Voice (Volume 1) by Amaranth Borsuk (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gabriela Jauregui, Jeff Solomon 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Letter to My Children The countess is a replica. She's a shell of a woman and when I listen to her I hear the sea. I am her bodyguard and we met in Vera Cruz or Manhattan. Once she walked by, was transparent, and adoring. I could smell her loving me b...more
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