The books that were with me while I wrote Looking for Joni Mitchell. Some served as historical and musical research, some opened up the Los Angeles and Laurel Canyon of the 1960s and '70s for me, and others shaped me as a writer — in the way they tell stories about women, memory, music, and identity.
Research, music & Laurel Canyon
- Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell — David Yaffe
- Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon and the Journey of a Generation — Sheila Weller
- Hotel California — Barney Hoskyns
- Laurel Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood — Michael Walker
- Canyon of Dreams: The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon — Harvey Kubernik
- Waiting for the Sun: A Rock & Roll History of Los Angeles — Barney Hoskyns
- I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie — Pamela Des Barres
Novels that traveled with me
- Daisy Jones & The Six — Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo — Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Tom Lake — Ann Patchett
Films & documentaries
- Laurel Canyon (2020) — dir. Alison Ellwood
- Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind (2003) — dir. Susan Lacy