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- The Best Autobiographies Of MusiciansReading list
Patti Smith is a musician who has been active since the late 1960s. She was born in Chicago in 1946, and she began her musical career in Detroit in the late 1960s. She moved to New York City in 1974, where she became an important figure in the city’s punk rock scene. In 1975, she released her debut album, Horses…
- The Best Books Set In New YorkReading list
Just Kids is the story of Patti Smith’s relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. It chronicles their time together in New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s, during which they struggled to find their place in the art world. The city itself plays a central role in the book, serving as both a source…
- Jessica FanzoInterview
Chronicles by Bob Dylan, Just Kids by Patti Smith (I am a big fan of music books), Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss, Blood, Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton, Food Politics and Soda Politics by Marion Nestle (see our interview with Marion Nestle), Mass Starvation by…
- David PapineauInterview
Just Kids by Patti Smith, about her and Robert Mapplethorpe hanging out in New York in their twenties. It’s especially interesting for me, as the apartment where I’m currently living is a block from the Chelsea Hotel, where much of the book is set. It’s good fun, but the odd thing is that I’m half-way through the…
- V.E. SchwabInterview
- Jeff ZentnerInterview
Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward, All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Just Kids by Patti Smith, Blue Nights by Joan Didion.
- Monique RoffeyInterview
Toni Morrison, for everything, for breaking all the rules, Mary Shelley, for her genius, and the monster, Angela Carter for her feminism and rewriting of myths, (applies to the last three too), Mary Karr, as I love her memoir, The Liars’ Club, and Patti Smith, for her poems, songs and memoir Just Kids.
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