Devotion
2017 • 106 pages

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"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and a garden all converge in what becomes Devotion, [a] ... fairy tale about a young, displaced Estonian skater and a solitary dealer in rare objects and arms. This ... fable about creativity and obsession, possession and freedom is followed by a meditation on how a work of art is, for other artists, a call to action"--Booklist, 08/01/2017.


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Why I Write

Why I Write is a 5-book series first released in 2017 with contributions by Patti Smith, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Karl Ove Knausgaard.


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February 10, 2019

Patti's writing always captivates me, and her ability to tell a story is unparalleled. A portion of this is a fictional tale as opposed to her usual non-fiction and I was blown away. Why doesn't she write more fiction!?

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