Kim Kardashian's Marriage

Author: Sam Riviere
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571321445
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

Book Description
The 72 poems in Kim Kardashian's Marriage mark out equally sharpened lines of public and private engagement. Kim Kardashian's 2011 marriage lasted for 72 days, and was seen by some as illustrative of celebrity life as a performance, as spectacle. Whatever the truth of this (and Kardashian's own statements refute it), Sam Riviere has used the furor as a point of ignition, deploying terms from Kardashian's make-up regimen to explore surfaces and self-consciousness, presentation and obfuscation. His pursuit is toward a form of zero-privacy akin, perhaps, to Kardashian's own life, that eschews a dependence upon confessional modes of writing to explore what kind of meaning lies in impersonal methods of creation. The poems have been produced by harvesting and manipulating the results of search engines to create a poetry of part-collage, part-improvisation. The effect is as refractive as it is reflective, and disturbs the slant on biography through a bricolage of recycled and cross-referenced language, until we are left with a pixellation of the first person.

Kardashian Konfidential

Author: Kourtney Kardashian
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312628072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
An authorized, three-way confessional by the reality television celebrities shares fun facts about their shared childhoods, presents beauty and style secrets, and reveals family insights that sustain their professional lives.

Kardashian Konfidential: Revised and Updated

Author: Kim Kardashian
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466801638
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
New! Exclusive! Inside Kim's wedding with never-seen pix Plus! An amazing new chapter on the secrets of our success! You know a lot about us from watching our TV shows, but you don't know everything... yet! Come on in to our very first book and find out the real scoop about what it's like to be the Kardashian sisters. We love the red carpet, clothes, clubs and big events—and of course, glamming it up! But what we love most is being sisters: We're Kardashians first and forever, and we couldn't wait to write everything down and show you lots of cool stuff in this big scrapbook just for you. We're going to let you in on lots of secrets, like: --What it's really like to have a Momager --The beauty tip that we think is an absolute MUST! --The Peaks and Pits of our lives...so far --What we think about men, and the absolute most important man in our lives --Our private language: Bible! --How to do what you love—the way we do! --What you don't know about Kim's wedding Each of us pulled out our personal treasures for Kardashian Konfidential: funny and cute and even yummy stuff from our scrapbooks, our photo albums, letters, recipe cards and birthday boxes. Plus big beautiful photos taken just for this book. We wanted to make Kardashian Konfidential real and special. We think you'll have as much fun reading it as we did putting it together. Totes magotes!

Kris Jenner . . . And All Things Kardashian

Author: Kris Jenner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451646976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
Everybody's favorite "momager," the businesswoman behind the Kardashian empire, shares her never-before-told story.

Kim and Kanye - The Love Story

Author: Nadia Cohen
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1784183040
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
THEY HAVE BECOME KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS THE ULTIMATE POP-CULTURE POWER COUPLE. Favourites of the paparazzi, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are both worth millions in their own right. She is the queen of reality TV and an all-round business mogul. He’s a rapper, fashion designer and outspoken award show favourite. Together they are Kimye - glitzy, globetrotting icons and parents of one very stylish kid, North West. Without question they are the biggest news in entertainment today, making headlines around the world on a daily basis. America’s ‘other’ first couple were friends before they hooked up, although Kanye admitted to holding a torch for Kim for years. They may have their share of haters, and Kim came under fi re when she filed for divorce from Kris Humphries less than three months after their wedding. But in a recent lavish Italian ceremony fit for royalty, she and Kanye tied the knot, cementing their superstar status once and for all. Nadia Cohen’s brilliant, unauthorised biography traces the rise of Kimye, the world’s most glamorous couple.

81 Austerities

Author: Sam Riviere
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571289045
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
All three-dimensional objects can be experienced in two dimensions: it just takes some careful unpicking of the seams. Witty, comic, plaintive, touching, acerbic, droll, cavalier, caffeinated, irreverent, stringent: Austerities, the mind-altering substantial debut from Sam Riviere, seems to achieve the impossible in being all things at once. Initially conceived as a response to the 'austerity measures' implemented by the coalition government in 2011, the poems quickly began taking on a life in kind: 'cutting' themselves on levels of sentiment, structure and even subject matter. Not content to merely build a series of freethinking poems, these remarkable pieces seem eagerly and mischievously to analyze their moment of creation, then weigh their worth, then consign their excess to the recycling bin thereafter. Experience is speedy, the poems seem to say, so dizzyingly fast that the poetry will inevitably be running to catch up - often arriving at a scene the moment after the moment has gone. The effect is as funny and it is startling, beguiling as it is surprising, and makes Austerities a vivid reminder that deprivation, as Leonard Cohen put it, can be the mother of poetry.

Kim Kardashian

Author: Dennis Abrams
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0766093484
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
With more than 50 million followers on Twitter and an additional 92 million on Instagram, Kim Kardashian is an American phenomenon. Through ambition, drive, and a masterful use of social media, Kardashian has become a television star, successful businesswoman, and tech entrepreneur with a net worth estimated at close to 150 million dollars. Readers who think they know everything about this pop-culture giant may be surprised to learn how Kardashian turned infamy into fame to become one of the most photographed, talked about, and richest women in the world.

As Long as We Both Shall Love

Author: Karen M. Dunak
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814760449
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways in which the modern wedding epitomizes a diverse and consumerist culture and aims to reveal an ongoing debate about the power of peer culture, media, and the marketplace in America.

Kardashians

Author: Meredith Jones
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040038174
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
This interdisciplinary volume introduces the field of Kardashian Studies through collections of essays based in sociology, media studies, cultural studies, critical race theory and fashion theory. The Kardashian empire and dynasty is intertwined with some of the most important movements of the early twenty-first century. Celebrity, cultural appropriation, new forms of feminism, social media, ideal bodies, evolving notions of physical beauty and the global fashion system have all been affected by the quintessential influencers in this family of matriarchs. The anthology is structured around core thematic parts. From Storytelling and Race, through Fashion and Celebrity, to Time and Embodiment, each part contains an accessible introduction followed by chapters that together take a unique approach to exploring the Kardashians from multiple viewpoints. The inclusion of discussion points suitable for classroom use enhances the utility of the anthology for both study and teaching purposes. The first of its kind, Kardashians: A Critical Anthology positions Kardashian Studies at the forefront of critical inquiry around notions of authenticity, contemporary feminisms, visuality and social media. It will be of interest to both scholars and students interested in popular culture, television, notions of authenticity, contemporary feminisms, visuality, race and social media.

Kim Kardashian: Reality TV Star

Author: Joanne Mattern
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1614784418
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
This title examines the fascinating life of Kim Kardashian. Readers will learn about Kardashian's childhood, family, education, early interest in fashion, and rise to fame. Colorful graphics, oversize photos, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text that explores the Kardashian family's deal with Ryan Seacrest to film the reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians that made the family famous. Kardashian's appearances on popular television shows, including Dancing with the Stars, CSI: NY, and How I Met Your Mother, her thriving career as a model and a spokesperson, and her business ventures are also described. Also discussed are Kardashian's high-profile romances with rap singer Ray J., NFL running back Reggie Bush, NFL wide received Miles Austin, and NBA star Kris Humphries, the charities important to her, and her philanthropic efforts. Features include a table of contents, glossary, selected bibliography, Web links, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and fun facts. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.