![]() It’s energetic writing and compelling storytelling that actually sound like the author enjoys relating. Sundry fleeting images of places she has visited, awake or dreaming montages of cross-hatched observations, with the deep references of a collector or scholar by turns warm, wary, cagey, detached, and involved, each sentence leaves details begging to be considered further. Certain words flicker like mica (“The train line crippled and its sad bowels ripped apart, thousands of salt-coated wires, the gone intestines of motion.”). Her writing is easy and direct her indomitable curiosity is obvious on every page. And I think we’re fortunate for as close a look at Patti as any of us are probably ever going to get. ![]() If you enjoyed 2010’s National Book Award-winning Just Kids, this book will undoubtedly please you as well. It’s like having that worldly distant relative gather the young cousins together at a boring family event and confide in them fantastic, intricate experiences. She has so many of them, too, and they’re all different, complex and enchanting. ![]() ![]() I love having Patti Smith tell stories like she does in M Train, her latest memoir. ![]()
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