i just got a copy today from my library!

come join us on september 12 for a chat, 6:30 pm SLT

Oh cool. I've had this on my shelf at home for years and needed a push.

My public library's website is down for maintenance so I can't request the audio, but my library has a hard copy!

pruememo can explain to ilovemesomesharks about Patti Smith

Yeah this is gonna be tough for me, I can already tell lol sigh

Will anyone also read M Train?

ilovemesomesharks: why?

samakaza: that's considerably less linear, I understand?

AlannaRobbiani: rock music of the 70s is a gap. i don't speak the common cultural language associated with it, and all my attempts to access it have basically failed lol

I don't believe this book has much if anything to do with music, though, so you may be safe

what? really?

LOL i might indeed then!

i assumed it was her bio?

memoir, rather

the blurb said it was about her friendship with a photographer (whom I also don't know lol)

In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe

in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship,

Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.

do you know Robert Mapplethorpe?

yep. he did lots of black and white portraits of unfamiliar rock stars

lololol

He also created controversy in the 80s by pushing the boundaries of what some call art. I remember specifically that our library had a copy of one of his books that we had to keep locked up because

Some considered it obscene.

i vaguely remember that