![]() ![]() Legs: Dee Dee Ramone had come to me and wanted to do a book, and I said, “Hey, why don’t we do it as an oral history?” And I started interviewing people. Who initially came up with the idea for Please Kill Me ? I was working at the Poetry Project, and he lived nearby, so he’d come by and visit a lot and make a ruckus during our readings and embarrass me. Gillian: We met through a mutual friend, and we became fast friends. Brooklyn Radio sat down with the authors and Scott Gorenstein, Jonathan Marder VP, to discuss the process behind putting together an oral history, new projects, and even learned about one of Gillian’s dirty little secrets. ![]() They stopped by Rough Trade NYC in Brooklyn last Sunday to host a reading of excerpts from both books, followed by a Q&A session with the audience. Legs and Gillian are fresh off the release of their latest collaborative work Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose, which has been dubbed “a rare, no-holds-barred documentation of an American teenager’s life” by Publishers Weekly. ![]() The book’s co-authors, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, are responsible for pushing the genre to the forefront of the industry and inspired several authors of the 21st century to jump in the oral history bandwagon. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk was the first published work of its kind, and, despite a shelf life of close to twenty years, remains the ultimate guide to punk rock. ![]()
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