Carrie Brownstein to Write a Memoir

Carrie Brownstein in the Rolling Stone studio.Griffin Lotz for RollingStone.com

It's a busy year in books for Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein. The New York Times is reporting that the Wild Flag singer and guitarist has signed with Riverhead Press to write a memoir centered around her life in music and the Olympia, Washington scene that spawned her well-loved previous band, Sleater-Kinney.

Just last month, the news surfaced that an imprint of Hachette has engaged Brownstein and her sketch comedy partner Fred Armisen to write a parody travel book based on their hit IFC show. Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors is due out November 20th. 

Brownstein has been in the words business since before Sleater-Kinney disbanded, interviewing actors and musicians (including Eddie Vedder) for the The Believer magazine and reviewing video games for Slate. She also wrote the "Monitor Mix" blog for NPR from 2007 to 2010. In her final post for the blog, she announced that she was working on The Sound of Where You Are, a book about the music industry to be published by Ecco/Harper Collins. 

No date for the unnamed memoir's publication has been set.

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Carrie Brownstein to Write a Memoir

Carrie Brownstein in the Rolling Stone studio.Griffin Lotz for RollingStone.com

It's a busy year in books for Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein. The New York Times is reporting that the Wild Flag singer and guitarist has signed with Riverhead Press to write a memoir centered around her life in music and the Olympia, Washington scene that spawned her well-loved previous band, Sleater-Kinney.

Just last month, the news surfaced that an imprint of Hachette has engaged Brownstein and her sketch comedy partner Fred Armisen to write a parody travel book based on their hit IFC show. Portlandia: A Guide for Visitors is due out November 20th. 

Brownstein has been in the words business since before Sleater-Kinney disbanded, interviewing actors and musicians (including Eddie Vedder) for the The Believer magazine and reviewing video games for Slate. She also wrote the "Monitor Mix" blog for NPR from 2007 to 2010. In her final post for the blog, she announced that she was working on The Sound of Where You Are, a book about the music industry to be published by Ecco/Harper Collins. 

No date for the unnamed memoir's publication has been set.

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Carrie Underwood Rescues Abandoned Dog Along Highway

Carrie Underwood accepts the Artist of the Year Award on stage at the American Country Awards.Christopher Polk/ACA2011/Getty Images for ACA

Carrie Underwood has given a "Temporary Home" to an abandoned dog. The country star rescued an injured Lab from the side of a highway over the holidays, took the dog to the vet and found it a new home with some neighbors. 

Blogging for her fan club, the singer explained that she spotted two dogs along the road while traveling with her own dogs, Ace and Penny, from her parents' home in her native Oklahoma. "My guess is that the dogs were thrown out of their car by their owners on the highway," wrote the former American Idol winner.

One of the dogs was already dead, but she put the other – bloody and limping – into her SUV. She named the puppy Stella, took it to the vet and got it groomed. Within a matter of days, she'd found a nearby home for the dog. "I cried when she walked out the door," she wrote. Her husband, she joked, "told me not to be a crazy ex-girlfriend about it and stalk them," though the singer has been told that she's welcome to visit. 

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