A RESTLESS MIND

Stories and musings to marvel at in M Train by Patti Smith

Little, local cafés are Patti Smith’s favourite places for daydreaming and thinking. Fuelled by a cup of black coffee, she scribbles the ideas for poems and talks and books in her notebooks (or on the back of paper napkins) as the world whirls by outside the window. M Train is a lyrical look at a woman who lives life on her own terms, who’s accepting of the world’s melancholy and magic, and determined to find inspiration everywhere. She reads endless books, takes pictures with her Polaroid camera, quotes poets and misses her husband Fred Sonic Smith as she travels from Mexico to Berlin to her ramshackle bungalow on Rockaway Beach in New York’s Queens. Dazzlingly good. (Bloomsbury)…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, 1-Dec-15

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