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| | village voice > books > Lisa Crystal Carver's Drugs Are Nice: A Post-Punk Memoir by Joy Press |
 | | Lisa Carver may not be the last of her kind, but she definitely belongs to a dying breed. |
 | | She always kept her prose beguiling and clearheaded, even while documenting the most noxious and unhinged characters (foremost among them herself). |
 | | Those who figured her as the finest stylist of her generation will feel vindicated by Drugs Are Nice, an amazing elegy for the lost underground of the '80s, whose denizens—that Forced Exposure roll call of GG Allin, Michael Gira, and Lydia Lunch—equated authenticity and edge with abasement, abuse, and rolling in the anti-p.c. |
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