Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
You may know Carrie Brownstein from the TV show in which she co-stars and co-writes: Portlandia. This memoir does not include that part of her life, but Brownstein has long been a creative explorer & performer. Her start on the stage began with the Olympia, Washington-based band Sleater-Kinney. In an interview with Bust magazine last year, she talked about some of her younger fans: “They just see me as this person they know from television, and then they listen to Sleater-Kinney, and they think: ‘What is this scary music? You seem so happy on the show. What’s wrong? Why are you so upset?’ ” With Brownstein’s sharp eye and deprecating tongue, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl gives us those clues about what makes Brownstein “hungry” and “modern.”
