Veteran music journalist Katherine Yeske Taylor will read from and discuss her new book, “She’s a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism” (Backbeat Books, 280 pp., $34.95), March 5 at 6 p.m. at Labyrinth Books in Princeton and March 9 at 8 p.m. at Little City Books in Hoboken. Music journalist and producer Tom Beaujour will moderate the discussion in Princeton, while musician and Guitar Bar owner James Mastro will do so in Hoboken. In Hoboken, Tammy Faye Starlite, Karyn Kuhl, Diane Gentile and Megan Reilly will also perform songs by some of the musicians interviewed in the book. “All of the women profiled in this book have had to develop extraordinarily thick skin in order to persevere through the various obstacles they’ve encountered,” she said. “I believe that all of these women represent the spectrum of experiences that females in American society are also facing.

Source: The Guardian February 25, 2024 10:31 UTC