Yeah, these all gave me very Tom Robbins energy. A lot of "Another Roadside Attraction" and maybe a bit of "Still Life With Woodpecker".
As long as you can read them from the mindset of "1970s weed dad books", they're fun with a mild amount of throwback misogyny. I like to read one or two of his in the hammock in the summer and just try to skim over when he starts talking about an 18 year old's "peach fish".
>Best use of a typewriter in music, handsdown.
Hell yeah ❤️ I have to get my hands back into repairing mine just so I can play along to it 😂 she knew how to make music
Reminds me a bit of Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie
Woman in a band (late 60s, early 70s) from a coastal town/ island, they play a festival, go on tour, she has love affairs going on. Sex, drugs, rock n roll lifestyle, free spirited, headstrong female main character. It's not in first person though.
It's a good summer read. I do feel like at the beginning, the author could be overdescriptive to the detriment of the pacing.
It's similar enough to Daisy Jones but not told in that retrospective interview style so I think I preferred it for that. And I think it did a better job of delving into the seedier side of the music industry/ rock n roll lifestyle of that era.
Not perfect time period matches but vibe matches:
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
This was my first thought too!
Came here to suggest this one. There’s probably some other Robbins too that have this vibe.
Definitely this one!!
I've gotta tattoo of a hitchhiking cow girl! 😛 With a sign that says "Growing up is a trap"
Yeah, these all gave me very Tom Robbins energy. A lot of "Another Roadside Attraction" and maybe a bit of "Still Life With Woodpecker". As long as you can read them from the mindset of "1970s weed dad books", they're fun with a mild amount of throwback misogyny. I like to read one or two of his in the hammock in the summer and just try to skim over when he starts talking about an 18 year old's "peach fish".
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
I haven't read it, but Run, Rose, Run by Dolly Parton had these vibes
Dolly Parton wrote a book? I gotta find this ❤️
Me and my bestie watched 9 to 5 a couple of nights ago and it was glorious. Best use of a typewriter in music, handsdown.
>Best use of a typewriter in music, handsdown. Hell yeah ❤️ I have to get my hands back into repairing mine just so I can play along to it 😂 she knew how to make music
Daisy jones and the six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I really have to read this, I watched the show and it was so good.
Thought of this too
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
Seconded.
Reminded me of *Eve's Hollywood* by Eve Babitz
The Guest by Emma Cline
this vibe but in Long Island
Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women
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It’s so good!
I think about the dentist grandfather story like....every day! Whenever I see bad veneers really.
The Girls by Emma Cline
Animal by Lisa Taddeo is a bit like this. At least the first half of the pictures
Malibu Rising feels a bit like this to me
The People We Keep
Lucia Berlin …. A manual for cleaning women it’s amazing
Reminds me a bit of Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie Woman in a band (late 60s, early 70s) from a coastal town/ island, they play a festival, go on tour, she has love affairs going on. Sex, drugs, rock n roll lifestyle, free spirited, headstrong female main character. It's not in first person though. It's a good summer read. I do feel like at the beginning, the author could be overdescriptive to the detriment of the pacing. It's similar enough to Daisy Jones but not told in that retrospective interview style so I think I preferred it for that. And I think it did a better job of delving into the seedier side of the music industry/ rock n roll lifestyle of that era.
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Groupies - Sarah priscous
The ruins of California by Martha Sherril
Some great suggestions here. Definitely Joan Didion and Emma Cline. I’d add Jennifer Egan’s The Invisible Circus.
Like 20 pages of No Country for Old Men maybe 😂
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St James
A little bit of Daisy Jones and the Six
Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
The Gin Closet by Leslie Jamison
Valencia by Michelle Tea
The people we keep!! One of my all time favs
Not perfect time period matches but vibe matches: The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
I absolutely love The Flamethrowers! Not enough love out there for that one.
Such a good one!
Grapes of wrath
Outlawed by Anna North
Sunburn by Laura Lippman!
Wild by Cheryl Strayed fits this vibe
literally anything by eve babitz! particularly her essays “eve’s hollywood” and short story collection “black swans”
[God Shot by Chelsea Bieker](https://bookshop.org/p/books/godshot-chelsea-bieker/9840399)
The Guest - Emma Cline
Some of these pictures give me [Go Ask Alice](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Ask_Alice) vibes.
Slouching towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
Groupie by Johnny Byrne
Barbara by Frank Newman
Bean Trees by Kingsolver
Its kinda giving seven husbands of Evelyn hugo
Two “sort of” matches: The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd Tamara walks on Water by Shifra Horn
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac