Noughties

By Kate Durbin

A glittering reimagining of her cult classic E Entertainment, which was ahead of its time in taking the "bimbos" of reality TV seriously, Noughties reanimates the media systems that made the women of the 2000s into spectacle and then swallowed us all. In Kate Durbin's Noughties, a creepy yet charming docent leads us through the labyrinth of the Playboy Mansion, gossiping and pointing out every dog turd and missing bowl of cocaine. In new and reworked writings from E , Kim Kardashian's wedding decays into a hyper-branded, glitching gothic; The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' "Dinner Party from Hell" transmutes into occult s ance; and a meticulously transcribed episode of The Hills turns vocal fry and Balenciaga motorcycle bags into dream grammar. Most pieces in Noughties were first composed through Durbin's process of intensive surfacing, where she would watch a few frames of a show, pause, write down everything she saw, and then transform the material into poems and stories. A completely new addition, Durbin's playful ink drawings bring in Bridget Marquardt's pink Hello Kitty bedroom, tabloids as poems, and Paris and Nicole "that's hot" rewatch memes, for a feverish, singular artwork of a dirty decade that never really ended.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HBRVFN5Q
• ISBN13: 9798891060548
• Release Date: June 2027
• Publisher: Wave Books