Patricia wanted to copy her parents, who were forever staring into these objects. She learned to read when she was still a toddler. *M Train-*the title signifies a “mind train” that goes to any station it wants-is a sublime collection of true stories concerning irredeemable loss, memory, travel, crime, coffee, books, and wild imaginings that take us to the very heart of who Patti Smith is. Knopf), will leave no one in doubt that she has long since been a fully paid-up member of what she calls that secret society of writerly bums and obsessed alchemists panning in vain for a drop of gold. The Mother Courage of Punk can write! Her new memoir, M Train (published this month by Alfred A. When Just Kids, her rapturous labor of love about her formative days with Robert Mapplethorpe, was received with acclaim (and a National Book Award), some were surprised. And if she had to choose between rock and writing? “I wouldn’t hesitate,” she said. until eight A.M., before her husband and two children awoke. She wrote stories feverishly instead-working in escapist solitude each day from five A.M. In the 1980s, when she was living in Detroit with her husband (Fred “Sonic” Smith, the musician and love of her life, who died at age 45, in 1994), she didn’t perform for 16 years.
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