Kim Gordon, the musician best known for her years in the legendary rock band Sonic Youth, has a new book coming out this month, Spin magazine reports.
Gordon’s No Icon will be published by Rizzoli New York. The publisher describes the book as “an edgy and evocative visual self-portrait by musician and artist Kim Gordon, indie-underground cultural icon and muse of style for four decades.”
Gordon sang and played guitar and bass for Sonic Youth from 1981 to 2011, when the band broke up. Since then, she’s recorded with the bands Body/Head and Glitterbust, and acted in several television shows, including Girls and Portlandia. Her first solo album, No Home Record, was released last year.
No Icon will be a “personally curated scrapbook,” Rizzoli says.
“Through unpublished personal photographs, magazine and newspaper clippings, fashion editorials, and advertising campaigns, interspersed with Gordon’s song lyrics, writings, artworks, private objects, and ephemera, this book demonstrates how Kim Gordon has been a role model for generations of women and men,” the publisher says on a webpage for the book.
This will be Gordon’s third book, following the text collection Is It My Body? and the memoir Girl in a Band.
No Icon, which features a foreword written by Sleater-Kinney singer and guitarist Carrie Brownstein, is slated for publication on Oct. 13.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
