Everyone once in awhile you come across a book that so exquisitely explains your life experience it makes you feel less alone in the world. For me, these books include The Giant’s House by Elizabeth…
Posts tagged Memoir
It Ain’t No Big Thing
In her memoir Living Like a Runaway Lita Ford, writes about how unimportant high school was to her and how she skipped out on her graduation to play a show with The Runaways. This apathy…
Boys in the Trees
I have a strange compulsion to read all the memoirs written by women in music. I’m not exactly sure when it started. Maybe as a sort of research for my own book-in-progress. Maybe it’s because…
Unsatisfied
I feel as though admitting that Carrie Brownstein’s memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl left me a little ho-hum feeling is going to get my something card revoked. Indie cred? Rock & Roll lover?…
Did I Read Jewel’s Memoir? Of Course I Did.
I have zero doubt that I spent large swaths of time in 1995 driving around in my 1979 Chrysler Newport singing along to “Who Will Save Your Soul” with as much sincerity and passion as…
Chrissie Hynde’s Memoir Was Yucky
It would be impossible to measure how excited I was when I first hear that Chrissie Hynde was going to publish a memoir. After all, in their memoirs both Linda Ronstadt and Pat Benatar named…
Ranking All the Female Rockstar Memoirs I’ve Read Thus Far
When I was a kid, I read a lot of memoirs by actresses (or the daughters of actresses) from the forties and fifties, Hollywood’s golden era or some such bullshit. I don’t know. What I…
Listen, Hoss, Willie Nelson’s Autobio is Aces
I’ve read a lot of music memoirs. A lot. From Jen Trynin to Linda Ronstadt and Jacob Slichter to Pete Townshend. If you ask me, I will tell you my all-time favorite musical memoir is…
Girl in Kind of a Bummer
I am a 90s girl. And my definition of the 90s spans about 1992-1997. Everything before is the 80s, everything after is who cares. While a lot of GenX women like to color their nostalgia…
Yep, That’s 7th Grade
Ugh, seventh grade. Do you even remember it? That awful year when everything is changing at a pace you aren’t quite sure of — your body, your friends, the rules of society. Kevin Brockmeier nails…