Book Signing: Bert McCracken of The Used

Join Bert McCracken, lead singer of The Used, celebrating the release of “In Love and Death: The Lost Notebook.” The book centers on a personal notebook McCracken kept while writing The Used’s 2004 album “In Love and Death.” Long believed to be lost, the notebook resurfaced online nearly twenty years later and was returned to him. Its pages include handwritten lyrics, poems, sketches, and personal reflections from that period, offering direct insight into the creative process behind one of the band’s most recognized records.

Rather than a traditional memoir, “In Love and Death: The Lost Notebook” presents the source material itself. The entries capture an unfiltered period of McCracken’s early adulthood and document themes of grief, addiction, creativity, and survival as they appeared in real time. This signing offers readers the chance to engage with the artifact behind the music and meet the artist who created it.