Viv Albertine

Bio

Viv Albertine joined the seminal all-female British punk group The Slits as a guitarist when she was a teenager. Her 2014 memoir, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, chronicles her life as a young artist at the tail of the 1970s who was part of establishing what punk was and could be for generations to come. Albertine went on to work as a director, and raise a family in London. Her follow-up, To Throw Away Unopened, confronts aging and sexuality, and unpacks how the familial legacy lingers well into adulthood. Here she discusses the arduous process of writing a book, working as if no one will ever see what you create, and what it means to truly confront yourself on the page.