My favorite New Year’s Day activity is wiping the reading slate clean and starting fresh. Every year since 2002 (and due to some weird WordPress glitch I’ve had to start another list) I’ve kept track…
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Why I’m giving up on Blake Nelson’s Girl
And so I started reading Girl by Blake Nelson because it’s rock and roll June and I was so sick of non-fiction I could barf. Plus, it helped that the book had been sitting my…
An open plea to all rockstar/authors
This is my plea to all rockstars past, present, and future: If you ever write a book about rockstardom please, please, please, pretty please with cocaine and slutty groupies on top DO NOT spend pages…
Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be
Here’s the thing with rock and roll memoirs (at least this is the thing I’m getting after reading, well, two) stories about playing crowded, smoky clubs all the sound the same after you hear about…
The Importance of Music to Girls
At one point in her book The Importance of Music to Girls Lavinia Greenlaw makes this observation: “I don’t know how to think or how to talk about what I think. I haven’t learned anything…