Carrie Brownstein Taking Off
We featured Portlandia star and Sleater-Kinney guitarist Carrie Brownstein’s new memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir (Penguin/Riverhead Books; Penguin Audio and BOT) on last week’s look ahead.
Since then Brownstein has captured reader interest in back-to-back appearances on NPR’s Fresh Air and the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
On the strength of both performances her story has risen to #26 on Amazon’s sales rankings.
Perhaps some of the attention is due to her quirky set-piece for Colbert where she sings a somber song: