Patti Smith’s Just Kids was voted a best book of the 21st century. Her new memoir covers her whole life, charting deep love, ...
The Godmother of Punk shares details about her personal life and her work more intimately than she did in ‘Just Kids’ and ‘M Train.’ ...
This article appears in the December 2025 print edition with the headline “Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention.” ...
Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, ...