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Carrie Brownstein

Biography

Carrie Brownstein

Carrie Brownstein is a musician, writer and actor who first became widely known as the guitarist and vocalist of the band Sleater-Kinney and later as a creator, writer and co-star of the Emmy-nominated, Peabody Award winning television show "Portlandia." Brownstein’s writing has appeared in The New York TimesThe BelieverSlate, and numerous anthologies on music and culture. She lives in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles.

Carrie Brownstein

Books by Carrie Brownstein

by Carrie Brownstein - Memoir, Music, Nonfiction

HUNGER MAKES ME A MODERN GIRL is an intimate and revealing narrative of Carrie Brownstein’s escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community and rescue. Along the way, Brownstein chronicles the excitement and contradictions within the era’s flourishing and fiercely independent music subculture, including experiences that sowed the seeds for the observational satire of the popular television series “Portlandia” years later.