Kim Gordon leaves town: A road diary

It was time to go. "The memories I have, and the house I still own are both filled with stuff adorning a life I no longer live, feelings that I no longer have," Kim Gordon wrote in her powerful and poetic memoir, "Girl in a Band," of Northampton, Mass., where she and her Sonic Youth band mate-slash-husband, Thurston Moore, moved in 1999. The marriage collapsed, (in her words) "a cliche of middle-aged relationship failure," the band died with it and daughter Coco headed off to college. So on a Su...