When I Grow Up - A Memoir
Juliana's book - When I Grow Up - A Memoir was published by Wiley in September 2008
Rolling Stone has an excerpt from Chapter 16
The Phoenix has an excerpt from Chapter 34
The book is available from Wiley and the usual outlets including amazon.com and amazon.co.uk
"You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club, trying to hold onto your dignity, but the toilet is overflowed, and the place stinks of stale beer. I still have all the faith and love for my music and yet I’m still playing places for kids."
Feature / Interview in The New York Times
2 September 2008
Pictures of Juliana's passage reading / book signing at Book Soup in LA on 28 September 2008 at Flickr and pinkisthenewblog
"It was maybe the most authentically tortured and anguished vocal performance I'd ever had the pleasure (or horror) to witness."
Juliana on Don't by Dinosaur Jr. from an interview offering a playlist of accompanying music to the book at largeheartedboy.com
Juliana reading exceprts and discussing the book
Northeastern University, Boston, USA on 14 January 2009
iTunes has a free downloadable version of this video
Chapter List
- August 1: Hoboken
- Vision
- August 2: Philadelphia
- In the Woodshed
- August 3: New York City
- Angel Girl
- August 4: North Bergen to Boston
- The Interview Interview
- August 5: Cambridge
- Sassy
- August 7: Cleveland
- Big Money
- August 8: Columbus
- The Story of "My Sister"
- August 9: Indianapolis
- Cool Rock Boys
- August 10: Chicago
- Guns and Roses and Me
- August 11: Iowa City
- My Idol
- August 12: Minneapolis
- The Harpsichord
- August 13: Minneapolis to Kearney
- Hair and Makeup
- August 15: Denver to Wendover
- Jeff Buckley
- August 16: Wendover to San Francisco
- August 17: San Francisco
- The Telecommunications Act of 1996
- August 18: San Francisco to Los Angeles
- August 19: L.A.
- Demons
- August 20: San Diego
- Windows
- August 21: Tucson
- Begging to Be Dropped
- August 22: Albuquerque
- August 23: Albuquerque to Oklahoma City
- August 24: Lawrence
- Hunger
- August 25: St. Louis
- The Last Leg
- The Year of No Music
- How to Walk Away
Unpublished Chapters
In February 2009, Juliana began releasing unpublished chapters at julianahatfield.com with "Familiar Stranger" , followed in April 2009 with "8/6 Cambridge to Cleveland and in May 2009 with "Who The Hell Is Lilith?"
Update 9 July 2009 - the removal of Juliana's blog has led to these chapters also disappearing from the site - as of today they are still available on her myspace site - the following links are therefore currently dead.
Familiar Stranger
8/6 Cambridge to Cleveland
Who The Hell Is Lilith?