But Enough About Me by Jancee Dunn

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

Entertaining and well-written

3.5 stars. Very entertaining book, shines the most when Dunn recalls some of her more memorable celebrity interviews and gives tongue-in-cheek advice to aspiring music journalists. The autobiographical chapters are less interesting and a little frustrating in their sketchiness. Dunn miraculously gets a job at Rolling Stone magazine as an editorial assistant, and soon she's interviewing famous people and becoming an MTV2 VJ. What led to the promotion? What was it like to work with the notoriously sexist Jann Wenner of RS and how was the working environment? Dunn never covers any of this, choosing instead to devote pages to making gentle fun of her earnest JC Penny manager father and her former Southern belle mother (it's obvious that she loves and appreciates them, and nothing is mean-spirited) and portraying a few doomed love affairs before she meets her future husband.

Basically a lot of fun to read, but I wish it could have gone a tad bit deeper.