Horror Stories: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

The two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville traces her existence and career in a genre-bending memoir in stories about the pivotal moments that haunt her.

When Liz Phair shook things up with her musical debut, Exile in Guyville-making her simply because much a cultural number being a feminist pioneer and rock star-her raw candor, uncompromising authenticity, and deft storytelling inspired a legion of critics, songwriters, musicians, and on the subject of Horror Tales: A Memoir fans as well. Now, such as a Gen X Patti Smith, Liz Phair demonstrates on the path she has taken in these piercing essays that reveal the indelible recollections that have remained with her.

For Phair, horror is within the eye of the beholder-in the often unrecognized common experiences of daily discomfort, guilt, and dread that define our humanity. Illuminating despair with wish and consolation, tempering everything with her personal wit, Horror Stories is immersive, taking listeners inside the most personal junctures of Phair’s lifestyle, from facing her personal bad behavior as well as the repercussions of betraying her fundamental beliefs, to watching her precious grandmother inevitably fade, to going through the wonder of childbirth while becoming strike up for an autograph from the anesthesiologist.

Horror Stories is a literary success that reads just like the confessions of a friend. It gathers up our isolated shames and pulls them out in to the light, uniting us in our distributed imperfection, our uncertainty and our cowardice, smashing the stigma of not really being in charge. But most importantly, the uncompromising accuracy and candor of Horror Stories transforms these deeply personal encounters into tales about each and every one of us.

Musical interludes composed and performed by Liz Phair

Advance praise for Horror Tales

“Liz Phair’s songwriting has generally had the rare quality to be short-story-like. Damn great short stories, as well. Horror Stories has that unique Liz Phair capability to make you look at something you’d rather not really, but once you choose to do you’re happy you did-like any type of honest art. That is why Liz Phair still is, and always will end up being, a risk.”-Ben Folds