KD: — Yeah! And every show had a companion book.  I think the closest to that is the novelization of The Hills. Lauren Conrad’s got some pretty good books. Have you read them?

AR: No, but sometimes I see her books in a Salvation Army that also has Whitney Port’s novels, and it fills me with glee to place them side by side on a shelf. It’s like, finally, Lauren and Whit will have to talk it out.    

KD: [Laughs.] Wow. That could be really good for them. 

AR: How are you thinking about hunger in your works?

KD: I’m always dealing with the audience’s hunger, which can also feel kind of threatening, for women’s blood, to watch women fail. Then there’s also the hunger of me — my hunger. I’m consuming them as well. I don’t always fully understand my own motivations. We’re all hungry, even though we don’t always fully understand what for or why. It can fuel you or it can be really destructive if you don’t try to understand it.

AR: What about gendered notions of hunger?

KD: One aftereffect of reading E! Entertainment after I wrote it is that women become like treats or cakes in the way they’re commodified. There’s a lot of food in the book and a lot of objects