by Austin Channing Brown
★★★★¾
Tag archives: memoir
This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music
Kim Gordon, Sinéad Gleeson (Editors)
- “Music on the Internet Has No Context” Kim Gordon ★★★★
- “Broadside Ballads” Liz Pelly ★★★★★
- “Sonic Seasonings: The Genius of Wendy Carlos” Sinéad Gleeson” ★★★★★
Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir
by Lisa Crystal Carver
DNF 27%
A specific era and milieu of pre-internet edgelords. Empty, mean, and aboundingly white.
★¾
Say Everything
by Ione Skye
★★★¾
Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood
by Jackie Wang
★★★½
Jokes My Father Never Taught Me
by Rain Pryor
★★★
Pryor Convictions: And Other Life Sentences
by Richard Pryor
★★★¾
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
by Adeline Yen Mah
★★★¼
Beastie Boys Book
by Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
★★★★
Halfbreed
by Maria Campbell
★★★★½
Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
by Kathleen Hanna
★★★★¾
Everything I Know About Love
by Dolly Alderton
★★★★
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom
by Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri
★★★★★
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
by Kiese Laymon
★★★★
Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
by Nile Rodgers
★★★★★
Sonic Life
by Thurston Moore
Searing, poetic. Unexpectedly at least 30% music journalism. Got to know a couple of names I want to check out more of. I loved hearing about the X-Ray Spex concert, about Freezer Burn, Flower, I wanted to hear it all. The exchange with Sun Ra made me tear … Read more
The Best We Could Do
by Thi Bui
★★★
I Am Spock
by Leonard Nimoy
I read this having seen more SNW Spock than TOS. I knew of two contributions by Nimoy that gave me a positive impression and spurred me to read another memoir by someone I wasn’t necessarily a dedicated fan of (following the vibrant Fingers Crossed by Miki Berenyi). One … Read more
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America
by Julia Lee
★★★½
Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
by Miki Berenyi
★★★★½