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2016 selection · Nonfiction
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, for music lovers, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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