Title: Bohemia? Keep Looking.....
Review: Tom Wolfe she's not. She may be in love with her subject, but that doesn't save this book from reading like a masters thesis where you're allowed to quote your friends as sources. The points that she makes (bohemians need substitute families, bohemians like drugs, bohemians like old clothes) do not bear the lengths that she goes to make them. The scenes that she cites were over fifteen years ago; during her record store days they were just switching from vinyl to CDs. If you're looking for what constitutes bohemia now in America I would wave you off this book. If you're looking for a fun read about "bohemia," I would do likewise. She tries to lighten the going with the occasional witty description, but these don't help a wild subject marry a wooden, pseudo-scholarly style. You have to wonder, in those groovy San Francisco group-pads she invokes, what she was reading...
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