Advance Praise for Citizen Kim:
"I bear some responsibility for introducing Jonathan Van Meter to Kim Kardashian a decade ago, but what a result. Citizen Kim is the kind of intelligent and incisive book that comes along when a great journalist finds his perfect subject. Irresistible."
Anna Wintour
"[Van Meter] brings a sharp, witty tone (at one point, he compares Lady Gaga, another former interview subject, to a hairless cat ) to his source material, but what mostly comes across is a deep, abiding respect for a woman who has taken countless setbacks, invasions, and humiliations and turned them into an empire. . . . The book is ultimately a rich page-turner reported from the eye of the hurricane, a dispatch from the life of the woman who made the social-media age in her own image."
Cultured
"I've often wondered how someone like Kim Kardashian happens. Jonathan Van Meter brilliantly shows how fame, ambition, social media, and American-dream-flavored capitalism converged to make her seem inevitable. This is a wild Los Angeles story, full of fascinating cultural history, all serving the remarkable Bowerbird construction that is the Kardashian family.
Aimee Mann
Absolutely terrific. Jonathan Van Meter s Citizen Kim is an intimate, moving, alternately tragic and hilarious portrait of one of the most public figures on the planet. In his inimitable style warm, wise, and filled with wonder Van Meter invites us to curl up beside her on the sofa, to listen to her raucous tale of dreams, tragedies, and improbable triumph. In Van Meter s deft hands, Kim Kardashian s life becomes a twenty-first century Horatio Alger story with a feminist core. It is as thrilling as it is inspirational.
Mary Gabriel
"[Van Meter] is the kind of journalist who has the ability to take a celebrity subject, often someone who is as glamorous as they are deliciously tabloid, and pen an intelligent, fascinating and witty study of them which doubles as a deft analysis of the zeitgeist, of American culture, and of the current state of fame.
Plum Sykes
