Carrie Brownstein’s Book Tour to Kick Off in Brooklyn

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Carrie Brownstein's memoir, “Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl,” is scheduled to be released in October.Credit Autumn de Wilde

From “Portlandia” to Portland, Ore., and Brooklyn, too, Carrie Brownstein will be traveling to 11 cities across the United States this fall to promote her memoir, “Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl” (Riverhead Books), due in October.

Along the way, Ms. Brownstein — who writes and stars in the IFC series “Portlandia” with Fred Armisen — will be joined in conversation with the entertainers Questlove (at Word Bookstore in Brooklyn on Oct. 27), Gaby Hoffmann (at Barnes & Noble Union Square in Manhattan on Oct. 28), Amy Poehler (Los Angeles on Nov. 3) and Dave Eggers (San Francisco on Nov. 4), among others.

“I tried to pick people who I thought would approach the subject matter and me as a person from different angles,” Ms. Brownstein said of her interviewers, adding that she was relieved when her publisher told her that book tours are generally not as extensive as music tours. “As much as I wanted to have a stop in Indianapolis,” she said.

In the memoir, which she calls her first “noncollaborative creative endeavor,” Ms. Brownstein writes about growing up in the Pacific Northwest and forming the three-woman punk-rock band Sleater Kinney, which recently reunited after the band’s dissolution in 2006.

Ms. Brownstein said she was inspired by Steve Martin’s memoir, “Born Standing Up,” and conceived the book while writing a blog for NPR Music. (She discovered that her most popular posts were ones in which she opened up about herself.) About the memoir, which she calls the “anti-behind-the-music,” referring to the VH1 series, she said: “I wanted to write about my journey into music,” and evolution from “an outsider to a place where I belong.”

Information about the book tour and a full list of tour dates can be found at app.snapapp.com/CarrieBrownsteinTour.

Correction: August 31, 2015
An earlier version of this post misspelled the surname of the actress appearing with Carrie Brownstein on Oct. 28. She is Gaby Hoffmann, not Hoffman.