Patti Smith’s Just Kids helped Gina Frangello remember the instant symbiosis of young artists.
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Spring Books: Homages
Five Chicago novelists on the books and writers that inspired them.
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Patti Smith’s Memoir Nominated for a National Book Award
Smith got the nod in the nonfiction category for her recent book, Just Kids (Ecco), a remarkable memoir of her life in New York with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late 60s and 70s. As Miles Raymer noted in a post last week, Smith will be in Chicago (her birthplace) on November 30 to speak […]
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This Should Be Good: Patti Smith to Speak at Columbia
Totally mandatory. And free. Mark your calendars: registration starts October 19.
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Local Burroughs doc coming to theaters, PBS
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s Oscilloscope Laboratories will release local filmmaker Yony Leyser’s documentary “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within.”
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Yony Leyser’s documentary “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within” and Thomas Woschitz’s “Universalove” open the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival on Thursday, March 4.
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Letters & Comments: February 25, 2010
“I expect to see many incumbents tarred and feathered on their way out of office in every election henceforth. Good riddance, probably.”
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Patti Smith on Just Kids
The punk poet discusses her memoir of New York life in the 60s and 70s.
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2/21: Patti Smith Reading
After last night’s sold-out show at the Park West, Patti Smith will read from and sign Just Kids, her memoir about New York in the 60s and 70s and her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, at 2pm at the Harold Washington Library (400 S. State, 312-747-4300).
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Patti Smith at Harold Washington Library
Patti Smith reads from her memoir, Just Kids, at the Harold Washington Library Center
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Kerouac documentary tonight only
The new documentary “One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur” screens Tuesday 10/20 at Webster Place.
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Patti Smith, the Chutzpah Champ
I watched the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies so you didn’t have to.
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Burn, Hall of Fame, burn
I’m so much happier since I stopped caring about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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If I’m middle-aged, why do I have a zit on my chin?
The 2007 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are . . . seemingly arbitrary.