But Enough About Me
How a Small-Town Girl Went from Shag Carpet to the Red Carpet
Jancee Dunn
- “Breezy
- .
- .
- .
- juicy
- .
- .
- .
- irresistible”
- this
- memoir
- from
- a
- former
- Rolling
- Stone
- reporter
- is
- “as
- entertaining
- as
- the
- megastars
- she
- has
- built
- a
- career
- on
- profiling”
- (Entertainment
- Weekly).New
- Jersey
- in
- the
- 1980s
- had
- everything
- Jancee
- Dunn
- wanted:
- trips
- down
- the
- shore,
- Bruce
- Springsteen,
- a
- tantalizing
- array
- of
- malls,
- and,
- especially,
- her
- family.
- But
- one
- night
- she
- met
- a
- girl
- who
- worked
- at
- Rolling
- Stone
- magazine
- in
- New
- York
- City.
- To
- Jancee,
- who
- visited
- the
- city
- exactly
- once
- a
- year,
- New
- York
- might
- as
- well
- have
- been
- in
- Canada.
- But
- she
- loved
- music,
- so
- she
- passed
- along
- her
- résumé.Soon
- Jancee
- was
- behind
- the
- scenes,
- interviewing
- some
- of
- the
- most
- famous
- people
- in
- the
- world,
- among
- them
- Madonna,
- Cameron
- Diaz,
- and
- Beyoncé.
- She
- trekked
- to
- the
- Canadian
- Rockies
- to
- hike
- with
- Brad
- Pitt,
- was
- chased
- by
- paparazzi
- who
- mistook
- her
- for
- Ben
- Affleck’s
- new
- girlfriend,
- snacked
- on
- Velveeta
- with
- Dolly
- Parton,
- and
- danced
- drunkenly
- onstage
- with
- the
- Beastie
- Boys.
- She
- even
- became
- a
- TV
- star
- as
- a
- pioneering
- VJ
- on
- MTV2.As
- her
- life
- spun
- faster,
- she
- traded
- her
- good-girl
- suburban
- past
- for
- late
- nights
- and
- hipster
- guys.
- But
- then
- a
- chance
- meeting
- turned
- Jancee’s
- life
- in
- an
- unexpected
- direction
- and
- helped
- her
- to
- finally
- learn
- to
- appreciate
- where
- she
- came
- from,
- who
- she
- was,
- and
- what
- she
- wanted
- to
- be.Hilarious
- and
- touching,
- But
- Enough
- About
- Me
- is
- the
- story
- of
- an
- outsider
- who
- couldn’t
- quite
- bring
- herself
- to
- become
- an
- insider
- and
- introduces
- readers
- to
- a
- lovable
- real-life
- heroine.“An
- inside
- look
- at
- being
- a
- celebrity
- journalist.”
- —New
- Yorker“Disarmingly
- funny.”
- —People“Relentlessly
- readable.”
- —New
- York
- Magazine“Pitch-perfect.” —Vogue
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