Laurie's Essays on The Morning News: All-Time Lows, It's Not Phair More Press for Petal Pusher: "Petal Pusher is so personal and true, like the best music and the best writing. Laurie Lindeen is the rarest combination of both - an author who knows how to put her musical soul on every page of this wonderful book. It's a road triop, a diary and a beautiful dance through the elixer-filled rooms where music is made, greatness is courted... and finally found in the quiet perfection of Lindeen's own life." CAMERON CROWE "Laurie Lindeen has deftly swirled a whole generation's angst and idealism into a wild ride of a road book that redefines the genre. Indie rock is the landscape, but American ardor is the subject. By turns comic and bittersweet, Petal Pusher introduces a vibrant new voice that renews the abiding American longing for the big time - finally a girl as Gatsby! But this girl doesn't die, and she doesn't lie. She gets her second chance - and uses it. A beauty of a book." PATRICIA HAMPL "My copy of Petal Pusher has exactly two dog-eared pages, because I was so riveted that I only managed to put the book down twice (and only for necessities like food and water). The events in Petal Pusher are like some fantastic, dramatic movie - but at the same time, every anecdote is so relatable, and the writing so intimate, that you may feel, as I did, that Laurie Lindeen has somehow read through your own journal entries and raided them for material. I love this book." JANE PRATT, founding editor of Sassy and Jane magazines "Laurie Lindeen writes beautifully about both sides of the rock and roll mirror - how it feels to be in the audience looking up and what it's like on the stage looking down. She writes with the honesty of a Who song, the humor of the Ramones, and the eye for detail of Joni Mitchell. Petal Pusher is music set to words." BILL FLANAGAN, Author of A&R: A Novel "Laurie Lindeen writes the same way Zuzu's Petals used to rock: with authentic detail, endearing sincerity, and the innate ability to reflect a certain pace at a certain time (with a voice that belongs only to her)." CHUCK KLOSTERMAN, Author of Fargo Rock City
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