But Enough About Me

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.