Right after Susanna Hoffs received her March 27th rave review from The New York Times for her debut novel This Bird Has Flown (“smart, ferocious rockstar redemption romance you didn’t know you needed . . . a total knockout”) she was, unsurprisingly, “slammed” with calls from thrilled well-wishers, according her lifelong best friend Mary Petrie Lowen. But Hoffs didn't have time to bask in the sun because she was embarking on a national tour (to New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and San Diego) for the book and for her imminently released album, The Deep End.
The reviews were well deserved. The cofounder of the delicious pop-rock girl group The Bangles, Hoffs is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, actress, and screenplay cowriter with 10 albums and seven singles to her credit. "She's not afraid of hard work," says Lowen. The review—which is a harbinger of others to come—is also proving that Hoffs's most recent birthday (64), for which she briefly shed a tear (“but not for sadness; rather, for reflection”), might be her best yet. And that’s a lot of bests.
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