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A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous
HarperCollins
June 2006
Featuring: Jancee Dunn
288 pages
ISBN: 0060843640
EAN: 9780060843649
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The second I stepped through the doors of Rolling
Stone as a real employee, I wanted to shake off my old
personality like the rigid husk of a cicada. But how could I
cultivate a new, hip persona when I lived with my parents in
a New Jersey suburb and wore black leggings as pants?
New Jersey in the 1980s had everything Jancee Dunn
wanted: trips down the shore, Bruce Springsteen, a
tantalizing array of malls, and, especially, her family.
Barreling down the Turnpike in her parents' Buick LeSabre,
her perm brushing the ceiling of the car, she felt ragingly
alive. But one night she met a girl who worked at Rolling
Stone magazine in New York City. To Jancee, who visited
the city exactly once a year with her parents and two
sisters, New York might as well have been in Canada. But she
loved music, so with bleak expectations she passed along her
résumé, dashing her father's hopes that she would carry on
the family legacy of service to J. C. Penney (a man so
revered that a bust of his head was proudly displayed in the
den) . Soon Jancee found herself backstage and
behind the scenes, interviewing a countless (and
nerve-racking) parade of some of the most famous people in
the world, among them Madonna, Cameron Diaz, and Beyoncé.
She trekked to the Canadian Rockies to hike with Brad Pitt,
was chased by paparazzi who mistook her for Ben Affleck's
new girlfriend, snacked on Velveeta with Dolly Parton, and
danced drunkenly onstage with the Beastie Boys. She even
became a TV star as a pioneering VJ on MTV2. As her
life spun faster, she plunged into the booze-soaked
rock-and-roll life, trading her good-girl suburban past for
late nights and hipster guys. But then a chance meeting
turned Jancee's life in an unexpected direction and helped
her to finally learn to appreciate where she came from, who
she was, and what she wanted to be. Riotously funny
and tremendously touching, But Enough About Me is the
story of an outsider who couldn't quite bring herself to
become an insider and introduces readers to a hysterical,
lovable real-life heroine.
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