An interview with Gillian McCain, co author of Please Kill Me

Produced by: 
KBOO
Program:: 
Life During Wartime
Air date: 
Wed, 12/28/2016 - 11:00pm to 11:15pm

This year we celebrate the 20th anniversary of PLEASE KILL ME: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. .

PLEASE KILL ME is a genuine cult book, published in 12 languages and in print for 20 years. It has become a contemporary American classic and spawned a generation of music oral history books, often imitated but never equaled. 

 

 

 

Erin Yanke spend a half hour talking with co-author Gillain McCain about creating Please Kill Me, and other parts of her life, including the other book she coedited with Legs McNeil: Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose. Thanks for listening.

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Genre(s): 
Arts and Culture, Punk

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