:INFO
The Most Beautiful Memoir I Have Ever Read
Just Kids is Patti Smith's account of her years in New York with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, from their arrival in the city with nothing to his death from AIDS at the end. It is a book about art and friendship and what it feels like to be young and poor in a city that is also young and strange. Smith writes prose that sounds like it could be sung. I read it in a single day and immediately wanted to begin it again from the first sentence.


:NOTE
Smith and Mapplethorpe are the model for how to support another artist's work.


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An artist is someone who never averts her eyes.


:JOURNEY
Reading Just Kids
5 Most vivid portrait
5 Love with restraint
4 Unsentimental
5 Grief fully earned

:PROFILE
Patti Smith
New York City
Poet, singer, and artist. National Book Award winner for Just Kids. Author of M Train and Year of th