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WORD: Junkie no more, Courtney Love hits the promotional trail for memoir ‘Dirty Blonde’

After months of relative anonymity, Courtney Love is once again hitting the party circuit but this time the former junkie and longtime Hole singer isn’t creating public train wrecks. Instead, she’s out promoting her new memoir, Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love that publisher Faber & Faber launched on Oct. 31.

Love was reportedly at the V Magazine party in New York City on Halloween signing copies of her book, which F&F describes as a collection of collection of personal letters, childhood records, poetry, diary entries, song lyrics and photographs that had never been seen by the public.

Readers can expect more frank entries than most memoirs, which are often either too glossed over or exaggerated caricatures (Millions of Little Lies, anyone?). Love, who has stayed clean since leaving rehab for the umpteenth time in 2005, writes that she’s "a public figure unhappy with my share of the American dream. There can only be one reason for this. I am on drugs, and have the morals and mentality of a cartoon character."

Love plans to do a book tour in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and New York this month. She hits Cody’s Books on Fourth Street in Berkeley on Saturday, November 4, from 7 pm to 9 am. WORD’N’BASS.com will post some of her other book tour dates when they’re available.

As WORD'N'BASS.com reported previously, Dirty Blonde is also going global soon, after literary deal factory Vigliano Associates of New York City placed it with publisher Picador in the UK, Kiepenheuer in Germany, and Sperling in Italy.

Agency founder David Vigliano handled the U.S. rights while Celeste Bernadette Fine, who has since joined Folio Literary Management, placed Dirty Blonde offshore.

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