Author interview: Marissa Stapley

The Lightning Bottles tackles misogyny and the pitfalls of fame in the music industry

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The Lightning Bottles

Marissa Stapley

Simon and Schuster

It’s the novel that Marissa Stapley long wanted to write — a story that lifts the lid off the music scene of the 1990s.

But she had more on her mind than simply delivering a potent evocation of what she considers to be a watershed moment in our history — “the last era we had of a really definable culture before the internet.”