Hersh Words
Rolling Stone named Kristin Hersh’s
Rat Girl as one of the 10 best rock memoirs ever written, and the Noise Pop stalwart and founder of Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave is coming to Green Apple Books to support her follow-up, a eulogy of sorts for her friend, Vic Chesnutt. A disabled singer-songwriter whose confinement to a wheelchair and lack of digital dexterity left him unable to play more than the simplest chords, Chesnutt certainly cuts a tragic figure, but Hersh’s
Don’t Suck, Don’t Die: Giving Up Vic Chesnutt proves that the musician’s-musician status his work received was more than empty condescension. This look at their decade-long friendship goes far deeper than diagnosing the faults of a complex personality, and Hersh’s conversation with S.F. writer and editor Anisse Gross is bound to tease out all the poignant moments — and probably a fair amount of insults, too.
— Peter Lawrence Kane
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