The Last Rock Star Book... Or: Liz Phair, a Rant

Verse Chorus Press is proud to announce the publication of the first novel by Camden Joy, recently described by NPR's Ira Glass as "one of the most original music writers in this country" and heralded as "a spectacularly energetic writer" in Publishers Weekly's advance review of The Last Rock Star Book.

Camden Joy's hero can charm landladies, but he can't seem to wrap up the quickie biography of rock star Liz Phair he's been commissioned to write. Instead, the shaky author finds himself caught up in recounting the troubled events that mark his own life. His ex-girlfriend (who just might be the illegitimate daughter of dead Rolling Stone Brian Jones); the rock star (whom he's never met); and a mystery girl in an old newspaper photo all start to blur together. If only he could get closer to his subject, before the assignment spins out of control, maybe he'd have a shot at the distinction he deserves.

Hilarious and compelling, The Last Rock Star Book offers both an engrossing read and a powerful meditation on celebrity and obsession.