It is now published in Brazil, China, The Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Spain. A review in Time Out New York said the book, 'Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time.' Excerpts of the book appeared in Vanity Fair in concert with the book's release in 1996. Upon its initial release Please Kill Me was a Time Out and Daily News Top Ten book of the year. Please Kill Me was an instant hit and has since become a cult classic, inspiring a new era of musical oral histories. The book spans the early-Punk period of the Velvet Underground through the rise and fall of Punk icons Iggy Pop, the Ramones, and more. Composed of the excerpts from hundreds of interviews, Please Kill Me presents a unique view of a volatile and complex period in American history. In 1996, Grove Press published Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, which McCain co-wrote with Legs McNeil.

McCain married James Marshall, a writer, whom she met at the Poetry Project, in 2002. She devoted herself to writing full-time in 1995. In four years she brought in over four hundred artists.

In 1991 she founded the Friday Night Series-a weekly event that featured poetry, fiction, non-fiction, theme readings, tributes, lectures, performance art and music. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, where she served as program coordinator (1991–1994), editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter (1994–1995), and edited four issues of the lit-zine Milk. įollowing her graduation from New York University, McCain was hired by the Poetry Project at St. In 1988, McCain studied in the Naropa Institute’s summer program. in Literature at New York University in 1990. She moved to New York City in 1987 where she went on to complete a M.A. She attended the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she earned a B.A in Literature. McCain was born in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery New York City. She sat on the board of directors of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and was the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Poetry Project at St. Portions of her 'found photo' collection have been featured in magazines, published as limited edition books, and exhibited at the Camera Club of New York gallery. McCain is the author of two books of poetry: Tilt and Religion. Gillian McCain (born January 1, 1966) is a Canadian poet, author, and photography collector best known for Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, which she co-wrote with Legs McNeil. Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain doing a book reading at Book Soup in Los Angeles in 2014

Legs mcneil and gillian mccain