Hunger makes a modern girl
October 21, 2015 1:16 PM   Subscribe

An excerpt from Carrie Brownstein's memoir. "Sometimes the dull detritus of our pasts become glaring strands once you realize they form a pattern, a lighted path to the present." - from "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl," scheduled to be published this month. posted by areaperson (11 comments total) 20 users marked this as a favorite
 
Parents are supposed to be our storage facilities: insert a memory, let them hold on to it for you. Leave behind stuffed animals and school projects, report cards and clothes, they keep them so you don’t have to.

Yes, this.
posted by rtha at 1:57 PM on October 21, 2015 [5 favorites]


I'm not quite ready for people my age to be writing memoirs, no matter how awesome they are.
posted by entropicamericana at 2:00 PM on October 21, 2015 [2 favorites]


Based on Lena Dunham's memoir schedule, she's more than a decade overdue.
posted by Mr.Know-it-some at 2:03 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


Parents are supposed to be our storage facilities: insert a memory, let them hold on to it for you. Leave behind stuffed animals and school projects, report cards and clothes, they keep them so you don’t have to.

Yes, this.


Oh man. After 3 kids and 18 years, we have bins in the basement that are over-flowing with of all kinds of chicken-scratchy art, science projects, homemade halloween costumes and childhood ephemera. Every once in a while we get brave and purge a bin with the rule: keep one or two really special things and pitch the rest. The alternative is for our kids to find us dead in the basement, smothered under a pile of colourful construction paper sheets with stickers on them.
posted by chococat at 2:54 PM on October 21, 2015 [6 favorites]


What a beautiful excerpt. I was excited for her book anyway, but now even more so. Sadly, the closest her book tour is coming to me is Philly.
posted by darksong at 3:54 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


I'm going to have to read the book now. THANKS A LOT
posted by a halcyon day at 4:32 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


She looks so much like her mom in the photo! It's almost like a photo of Portlandia Carrie playing a 70's mom in a sketch. I wonder if that resemblance is tough for her, because it sounds like her mom left the family. I suppose I'll need to read the book to find out more!
posted by areaperson at 5:12 PM on October 21, 2015


The NYer profile on her from 2012 is worth a read, too.
posted by vunder at 5:59 PM on October 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


Not that I'm surprised at all to find Brownstein is an insightful, thoughtful writer, but after slogging through Keith Richards's Life I feel like this excerpt is basically a breath of wonderful spring literary nonfiction air.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 9:46 AM on October 22, 2015


> slogging through Keith Richards's Life

[flagged as "WTF that book is great"]
posted by The corpse in the library at 10:19 AM on October 22, 2015


Her interview with Terry Gross aired today. It contains some non-memoir facts, such as the lyrics to Buffy is fluffy.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 7:14 PM on October 27, 2015


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