Patti Smith To Release 'Just Kids' Follow Up 'M Train' In October
Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Written by Laura Johnson
Patti Smith will release M Train, the follow up to her memoir Just Kids, in October.
The new book is expected October 6 via Knopf. Check out the cover above, which was revealed exclusively to Entertainment Weeklyand the publisher description below, via Pitchfork.
M Train is a journey through eighteen "stations." It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself.
Patti Smith will perform ‘Horses’ in full at London's Field Day festival in June, continuing the record’s 40th anniversary celebrations.
Patti Smith Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows:
Mon June 08 2015 - MANCHESTER O2 Apollo
Tue June 09 2015 - GLASGOW Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
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