Author: pattismith

From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: a “sublime collection of true stories … and wild imaginings that take us to the very heart of who Patti Smith is” (Vanity Fair), told through the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. Patti Smith calls this bestselling work “a roadmap to my life.”M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every … 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. Through prose that shifts…

A “spellbinding” winner of the National Book Award (People): Before she became a famed performer, Patti Smith was a girl from New Jersey who discovered a new world in New York City… “A heartbreakingly sweet recollection” (The Boston Globe).