5/12/2023 0 Comments My train patti smith![]() ![]() I mean, I could have written M Train for the next 10 years. I just thought, ‘Well, I could go on forever, but I think I’ll end here.’ I can always pick up the thread if I want. I kept writing every day until I decided it was the end of this particular book or this particular journey. “It’s like the cowpoke said: ‘It’s not so easy writing about nothing.’ So I challenged myself just to see what it would be like to write about nothing. But this book really had no outline, no agenda and I didn’t even know I was writing a book at first I was just writing. It took me a long time to perform it, but it was a specific task and it had its parameters. “With Just Kids, I mean, Robert asked me to write our story the day before he died,” says Smith, 68, from the apartment she shares with three cats in Greenwich Village. And so Smith, borrowing those words as M Train’s opening line, decided to investigate for herself, resulting in a far hazier, more poetic and circuitous piece of autobiography than Just Kids, the proto-punk rocker’s celebrated 2010 book about her youthful friendship in New York with the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. “It’s not so easy writing about nothing,” he informed her. ![]() A mysterious cowpoke chanced upon in a dream determined the course of Patti Smith’s new memoir, M Train. ![]()
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