"Maybe the music industry had spat me out, but now Sarah had invited me back in. I should’ve been heartened and encouraged by being hand-picked for the tour. Sarah’s invitation meant that all the other stuff (album sales, chart positions, record company support) didn’t matter. It was me, my unpolished, unglamorous music, that mattered. My music had its own intrinsic value and it meant something to some people..."

Juliana on Lilith Fair and sharing a stage with The Boss in a new unpublished book chapter, now online at Juliana's blog. UPDATE - since the removal of Juliana's blogs the unpublished chapters have become, well, unpublished.  For now at least they are though available on Juliana's MySpace blog.

"As I drove, I thought, “Why am I comfortable only when I’m en-route? Why is it only in the opening between a starting point and a destination that I am at ease? It never fails: My restlessness and fear and longing fly out the window as soon as I hit the gas. I literally leave my troubles behind.”

'8/6 Cambridge to Cleveland' - a new unpublished chapter from When I Grow Up - A Memoir is now online at julianahatfield.com

UPDATE - since the removal of Juliana's blogs the unpublished chapters have become, well, unpublished.  For now at least though they are on the blog pages at Juliana's MySpace site.

"A few unpublished chapters" from When I Grow Up are being made available in installments on Juliana's official site.

"Familiar Stranger" is available now. UPDATE - the chapters have since disappeared with Juliana's blogs but are, for now, available on Juliana's myspace blog.

Juliana's book reading / discussion at Northeastern University, Boston on 14 January 2009.   A downloadable version is available on iTunes.

Pictures from Juliana's instore book reading / performance at L.A.'s Book Soup on 28 September are available on Flickr as uploaded by spiketop.  Also atpinkisthenewblog.com

She read from three chapters of When I Grow Up and performed My Baby..., Forever, and My Sister.

Listening to Culture Club at 16, Lou Barlow's rock'n roll authenticity, and years on she's still defending Wilson Phillips!  Juliana chooses and comments on a selection of songs to complement When I Grow Up - A Memoir in the 'book notes' feature at largeheartedboy.com

Juliana will be signing copies of When I Grow Up at Book Soup on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard from 7pm on 28 September 2008.

"I just don't want there to be any mysteries surrounding me." 

Juliana, interviewed by The Phoenix.

The site also carries an extract from When I Grow Up covering Juliana's heartbreaking candour over the 1995 European tour cancellation.

"At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk."

More from Chapter 16 (Cool Rock Boys) of Juliana's new book available at Rolling Stone