Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A MemoirFrom the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater Kinney, a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life and finding yourself in music. Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one of the most important movements in rock history. Seeking a sense of home and identity, she would discover both while moving from spectator to creator in

and create a safe space for the Igbo tribe

and ultimately finding one's true calling through hard work

A raucous yet detailed look back at the evolution of the music press and the passionate rock and pop journalists who documented the sounds that changed our culture

In a magnificently incisive psychological portrait

leaving traditional folk concerns behind and delving deep into the personal

Key influences

The crystal clear production was an improvement on the band’s earlier works

Terry O'Neill was given his first chance to photograph Sean Connery as James Bond in the film Goldfinger

Davidson guides his readers through 500 years

a collection of his earlier studies

The quality of her photography from the period has long been recognized as outstanding

in an America defined by both the self-mythologizing pomp of the upcoming bicentennial and ongoing sociopolitical turmoil