Hit So Hard: A Memoir

9 best books like Hit So Hard: A Memoir (Patty Schemel): Brave, Horror Stories, You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love, To Throw Away Unopened, My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss, Darling Days: A Memoir

Brave

Author

Rose McGowan

Rose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another, more visible cult: Hollywood.

In a strange world where she was continually on display, stardom soon became a personal nightmare of constant exposure and sexualization. Rose escaped into the world of her mind, something she had done...

Horror Stories

Author	Liz Phair
ISBN	0525511989

From the two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville comes a haunting memoir in stories in the tradition of Patti Smith's M Train

When Liz Phair was just starting out in the Wicker Park, Chicago, music scene in the early 1990s,...

You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir

Author	Parker Posey
ISBN	0735218196

It's hard not to love Parker Posey. A singularly gifted actress with a wickedly funny personality that belies her movie star status, her cross-generational fame stems from starring roles in such unforgettable movies as Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, and You've Got Mail, and her recurring roles in...

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Author	Carrie Brownstein
ISBN	1594486638

From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply personal look at life in rock and roll.

Before Carrie Brownstein codeveloped and starred in the wildly popular TV comedy Portlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the...

Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love

Author	Courtney Love
ISBN	0865479593

A multi-textual memoir chronicling the life of one of our most potent pop icons.

Groundbreaking rock musician. Award-winning actress. Perceptive songwriter and author. Mother. Wife of a rock god. Fashionista and trendsetter. Provocateur. In each and every one of these roles Courtney...

To Throw Away Unopened

Author	Viv Albertine
ISBN	0571326234

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018

What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.

Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Music, Boys, Viv Albertine...

My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean

Author	Amy Dresner
ISBN	0316430951

In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side.

Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch...

Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss

Author	Stephanie Wittels Wachs
ISBN	1492664103

The space between life and death is a moment.
But it will remain alive in me for hundreds of thousands of future moments.

One phone call. That's all it took to change Stephanie Wittels Wachs' life forever..

Her younger brother Harris, a star in the comedy world known for his work...

Darling Days: A Memoir

Author	iO Tillett Wright
ISBN	0062368222

Unfolding in animated, crystalline prose, an emotionally raw, devastatingly powerful memoir of one young woman's extraordinary coming of age—a tale of gender and identity, freedom and addiction, rebellion and survival in the 1980s and 1990s, when punk, poverty, heroin, and art collided in the...