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Friday, November 21,2008
Society’s Child: My Autobiography
(Penguin), by Janis Ian
Janis Ian's autobiography, Society's Child, is an interesting read about mid-20th-century New York culture, including McCarthy-style oppression and overt racism, but she really should hire a fact-checker. Although the book serves as a wide-eyed account of show business in the 1960s and '70s, it's difficult to fully believe Ian's recollections because she makes numerous errors about the music scene. Ian states that Sam the Sham headlined Shea Stadium and The Blues Project morphed into the Chicago Transit Authority. Neither is correct. Ian had two memorable hits: the book's title song and the haunting "At Seventeen." Like her body of work, this book has many pleasant moments but is primarily a second-tier reflection.
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Haven't read the book, so it may or may not be well written.
However, Janis Ian's body of work over 40 years is remarkable and has deep resonance for many women and indeed for anyone who has a heart.
If she'd been born with a penis, she'd have been touted as another Dylan or Paul Simon, and she certainly would have garnered more than six sentences in an "alternative" weekly.
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Murder Short & Sweet (Chicago Review Press), edited by Paul D. StaudoharEddee Daniels' Dark EpiphanyThe Best Music You've Never Heard: Musical Adventures Off the Beaten Track (Rough Guides), by Nigel WilliamsonFun with MurderStories for the SeasonHardy Book LoversSwinging EnglandWriting in the Dark: Essays on Literature and PoliticsPeel-Apart PoetryTrials of Miles
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