Henry Rollins To Release Coming-of-Age Memoir Bait Dog Boy

Henry Rollins is set to release a memoir focusing on his childhood through his early days in the Washington, D.C., punk scene. The book, titled Bait Dog Boy, will arrive March 2nd, 2027, via Penguin Random House. A description of the former Black Flag and Rollins Band singer’s upcoming memoir from the publisher reads as follows: “What happens when a child grows up in an almost total vacuum of love? That was the reality for Henry Rollins, pioneering punk frontman of the seminal groups Black Flag and Rollins Band, who came of age in an environment seemingly determined to break him. For the first time, Rollins tells the story he spent most of his life trying to avoid, taking us through his childhood and adolescence—from a volatile Washington, D.C., childhood spent shuffling between indifferent parents, to his encounters with a seemingly endless parade of abusive adults, to his eventual meeting with Ian MacKaye, and their ultimate discovery of punk rock, which would become a lifeline. Rollins tells what it was like to live a life colored by the experience of constantly absorbing pain, like a bait dog. Told in Rollins’ unmistakably blunt, brutal, and acerbic voice, Bait Dog Boy is a com...