The Los Angeles Times reviews Sara Marcus's new book, Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution.
From the piece...
Brooklyn-based writer and musician Sara Marcus deserves a medal just for daring to write a book about Riot Grrrl, the fiercely uncompromising feminist movement of the 1990s. I was there for portions of the punk concerts, street protests and hand-crafted fanzines she documents in "Girls to the Front," and I wouldn't go near that hot mess of brilliant idealism and tragic dysfunctions with a 10-foot publishing contract. Marcus not only goes there, she describes Riot Grrrls' raw, emo agit-pop with a poetic fervor that matches its subject —- and chronicles the brief-lived rebellion's sometimes nasty downward spiral with perhaps too much sympathetic regret.
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