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Patti Smith to publish ‘intimate’ new memoir, Bread of Angels
Published in November, it will cover everything from Smith’s childhood to her rise as a punk rock star and later retreat from public life
Bread of Angels will cover everything from Smith’s childhood in working-class Philadelphia and South Jersey to her rise as a punk rock star and her subsequent retreat from public life. The singer won the 2010 National Book award for nonfiction, a prestigious US literary prize, for her previous memoir, Just Kids, which she had promised the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, her longtime partner and friend, that she would write. The latter focuses on 2016, when Smith’s friend, the producer, manager and rock critic Sandy Pearlman, died, and the musician was confronted with grief for him alongside fears about the rise of populism, the climate crisis, and her impending 70th birthday.
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