Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

by Carrie Brownstein

And to be a fan is to know that loving trumps being beloved.

My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping a whole new kind of blood into your veins. This is what it is to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.