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But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous

New Jersey in the 1980s had everything Jancee Dunn wanted: trips down the shore, Bruce Springsteen, a tantalizing array of malls. To music lover Jancee, New York City was a foreign country. So it was with bleak expectations that she submitted her resume to Rolling Stonemagazine. And before she knew it, she was backstage and behind the scenes with the most famous people in the world—hiking in Canada with Brad Pitt, snacking on Velveeta with Dolly Parton, dancing drunkenly onstage with the Beastie Boys—trading her good-girl suburban past for late nights, hipster guys, and the booze-soaked rock 'n' roll life.

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Riotously funny and tremendously touching, But Enough About Meis the amazing true story of an outsider who couldn't quite bring herself to become an insider.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 288 pages

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