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Patti Smith on Charlie Rose

January 17, 2011

Charlie Rose recently talked Patti Smith about her award-winning book Just Kids and her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. In this excerpt from the interview Smith sings her song My Blakean Year: You can watch the full interview here. (via Bookslut)

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Patti Smith on PBS NewsHour

January 3, 2011

I began, of course, as a poet, but the power of rock ‘n’ roll — rock ‘n’ roll was really the canopy of our cultural voice, and especially in the ’60s, late ’60s and early ’70s, that — and our rock stars, the people who were building that voice, whether it was John Lennon or [...]

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Favourite New Books of 2010

December 31, 2010

Ducking in just under the wire, here is my list of favourite of new books of the year. It’s not meant to represent the “best” of 2010. Rather, it’s a completely unscientific, very subjective list of books (arranged in alphabetical order) that I enjoyed. As I mentioned in my previous post, I found compiling the [...]

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Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation

November 30, 2010

Artist Patti Smith, author of Just Kids, in conversation with Jonathan Lethem, author of Chronic City, earlier this year: (via MobyLives)

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Midweek Miscellany

November 17, 2010

An excerpt from Jay McInerney’s introduction to Joy Division (published by Rizzoli), accompanied by a slideshow of Kevin Cummins’ photographs of the band, in Vanity Fair. Sandwiches with Ginsberg — Patti Smith reads from Just Kids, the story of her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe, at National Book Awards in New York. “It’s not all pristine [...]

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