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Horror Stories: A Memoir Audiobook

Horror Stories: A Memoir Audiobook

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The two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville traces her lifestyle and career within a genre-bending memoir in stories about the pivotal moments that haunt her.

When Liz Phair shook things up with her musical debut, Exile in Guyville-making her mainly because very much a cultural physique being a feminist pioneer and rock star-her raw candor, uncompromising authenticity, and deft storytelling inspired a legion of critics, songwriters, musicians, and about Horror Stories: A Memoir fans alike. Now, just like a Gen X Patti Smith, Liz Phair shows on the road she has taken in these piercing essays that reveal the indelible memories that have remained with her.

For Phair, horror is in the eye from the beholder-in the often unrecognized general encounters of daily pain, guilt, and fear that define our humanity. Illuminating despair with wish and consolation, tempering it all with her signature wit, Horror Stories is immersive, acquiring listeners inside the most romantic junctures of Phair’s life, from facing her very own bad behavior and the repercussions of betraying her fundamental beliefs, to watching her beloved grandmother inevitably fade, to going through the wonder of childbirth while getting strike up for an autograph from the anesthesiologist.

Horror Stories is a literary fulfillment that reads just like the confessions of a pal. It gathers up all of our isolated shames and draws them out into the light, uniting us inside our shared imperfection, our uncertainty and our cowardice, smashing the stigma of not being in charge. But most importantly, the uncompromising precision and candor of Horror Stories transforms these deeply personal experiences into stories about every single one of us.

Musical interludes composed and performed by Liz Phair

Advance compliment for Horror Tales

“Liz Phair’s songwriting offers always had the rare quality of being short-story-like. Damn great short stories, too. Horror Stories offers that exclusive Liz Phair capability to make you look at something you’d rather not, but once you decide to do you’re pleased you did-like any form of honest art. That is why Liz Phair is still, and often will become, a danger.”-Ben Folds

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