![]() Megan Ritt (MR): I enjoyed the details of Smith’s serious coffee habit, her writing rituals, her obsession with crime shows (it’s refreshing to know that famous artists have their outlets also). Matt Melis (MM): So, let’s just begin with general impressions. ![]() Read on to see the Book Club’s reaction to Patti Smith’s M Train. After winning the National Book Award in 2010 for her first memoir, Just Kids, which documented and reflected upon her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, Smith now returns with a second memoir, M Train - a collection that pulls through 19 stations along her latest stretch of track. While readers will immediately recognize Smith’s poetic prose and attention to detail, they’ll also quickly find that M Train completely abandons the structure and atmosphere of its award-winning predecessor. Then again, how surprising should it be that the “punk poet laureate” goes against expectation and switches tracks? ![]() Patti Smith may always be best known as the “Godmother of Punk,” but these days the words she quietly puts to paper in a cafe are just as stirring as those she emotes into a microphone during a sold-out concert. The Book Club is a recurring feature in which we read and discuss either a canonical piece of music writing or something fresh off the presses. ![]()
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