Just Kids
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In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work--from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.
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The best books, paintings, movies, really any work of art, for me, is when the artist makes it feel like the secret of their creativity is just there for the taking. It makes me want to write and create too.
I loved this book and its meditation on love and friendship and art and holy days.
everyone aspiring artist needs to read this, it's absolutely amazing. i truly have no words wow
I really wanted to love this book, but surprisingly, it didn't click with me. I feel bad for saying this about a memoir but I felt so bored—but it might have something to do with me not being from the Western world so I didn't really know or care for most of the references and namedrops (and they made up 40% of the book). It took me 12 days to get through this because I was falling asleep all the time. Ending chapter made up for it though
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