Philip Montgomery for The NY Times
Patti Smith is very much in the news these days, largely due to the release of her new memoir M Train, which New York Times’ Michiko Kakutani called “An eloquent — and a deeply moving — elegy for what she has “lost and cannot find” but can remember in words.“
Penelope Green in the Times Magazine last weekend nailed one of the things that is compelling about Smith: She is a sort of role model of real: the REAL process of writing, the REAL process of aging and change, neither of which she hides.
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