Patti Smith, along with her friend Robert Mapplethorpe, lived a particular New York dream–the Chelsea Hotel, Max’s Kansas City, CBGB, superstardom–to the fullest. Now in a great new memoir, she tells it like it was.
Remembrances of the Punk Prose Poetess
Vanessa Grigoriadis | New York Magazine | January 10, 2010 | 3,067 words
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