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Hunger Makes me a Modern Girl By Carrie Brownstein Riverhead Books, 256 pages, $27.95 The title of Carrie Brownstein’s recently released memoir, “Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl,” comes, as any Sleater-Kinney fan will giddily tell you, from one of the songs on her band’s album “The Woods” (which was released shortly before the group’s…
The appeal of the rockstar memoir is that not only can the reader see behind a larger-than-life figure, but that they can experience more of that largeness. To read a book where the protagonist is accompanied by screaming fans, endless drugs and boundless creativity is to ride in the sidecar of a motorcycle while the…
Photograph by Brigitte Sire As is the cases with any band reunion of this caliber, the question of Sleater-Kinney’s permanence is in the air: are you back, or are you back? Lead singer Corin Tucker, guitarist Carrie Brownstein and drummer Janet Weiss let the medium be the message. If No Cities to Love is any…
