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Kate Shapiro is an award-winning writer, editor, and poet. She published a novel with Jack Allison in 2023, Kill the Rich, a dystopian science fiction thriller set in the near future. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in Fence, Litro, Interim, and HAD. In 2018, she won the International Literary Seminars first prize in fiction. Kate graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

Her next book, Reality TV Is the Devil (and Don't You Forget It), a history of Vanderpump Rules, is out in April 2027 . ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 179 ratings · 34 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Kill The Rich by Jack Allison (Goodreads Author), Kate Shapiro (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 171 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reality TV Is the Devil (And Don't You Forget It): The Unofficial Vanderpump Rules Story by Rob Schulte, Kate Shapiro (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kate Shapiro rated a book really liked it Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1) by George R.R. Martin	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Kate Shapiro liked Ry Ry's review of American Psycho: "I feel like there’s something I’m missing with this book and Ellis’s work as a whole. I get that the unfeeling nature is part of the point, but god this book was monotonous in its even-keeled description of everything, most notably the extensive desc" Read more of this review »
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Kate Shapiro and 17 other people liked Dina G's review of The Heir Apparent: "A huge NO from me. I love anything to do with royalty, so I had high expectations for this book, but it turned out to be a poorly disguised Prince Harry fan fiction… If it was complete fiction, it would have worked. But by using so many real life eve" Read more of this review »
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i wanted a dumb beach read but this book made me dumber in ways i can't begin to comprehend. ...more
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