MCKENNA'S SECOND COLLECTION OF IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH SOME OF THE 20TH CENTURY'S MOST BRILLIANT CULTURAL ICONS Kristine McKenna's work as a journalist began in the late-1970s, when she covered the Los Angeles punk scene for various domestic and international publications. During the '80s and '90s she wrote art, film and music criticism, and profiled directors, musicians and visual artists for a variety of publications including Artforum, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times and New York Rocker. Book of Changes 2 is the second collection of favorite interviews culled from McKenna's files, and the book reveal's McKenna's highly intimate technique as an interviewer. That she manages to get such candor out of her subjects is remarkable. The list of interview subjects includes: Filmmaker Robert Altman; Jackie Onassis's cousin Edie Beale; punk rocker and poet Exene Cervenka; the musician Elvis Costello; surf guitar legend Dick Dale; the postmodern critic Jacques Derrida; Beat poet Allen Ginsberg; Television's Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine; art curator Walter Hopps; Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde; country music legend Rickie Lee Jones; the Sex Pistols' John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten); singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell; the Rabbi Jonathan Omer-Man; punk rock legend Joey Ramone; New York rock legend Lou Reed; the actress Eva Marie Saint; and the recently-departed Joe Strummer of the Clash. Also included are brief oral histories of Andy Warhol and Orson Welles. Book of Changes 2 also includes portraits of each interview subject by some of the best cartoonists in the world, including R. Crumb, Chris Ware, Jaime Hernandez, Charles Burns, Jim Woodring and others.

McKenna expertly draws out so much wisdom and character, you'll never miss not knowing what they're wearing. (Jane)

McKenna is one of the most gifted journalists in America. (Joe Frank)

A rare talent for catching her subjects being themselves and saying things they care about. (Beck)

The second collection of Kristine McKenna's interviews with some of the 20th Century's cultural icons.

Kristine Mckenna lives in Los Angeles, California, where she has recently finished a biography of the artist Wallace Berman.