Event

Patti Smith presents M Train

Patti Smith presents M Train
In conversation with interviewer TBA
Tickets $25 (includes a copy of the book)
Part of the Brooklyn Voices Series presented by Greenlight Bookstore and St. Joseph's College

Patti Smith, legendary musician and National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids, returns to memoir with her new book M Train. With prose that shifts between dreams and reality, and across a landscape of creative inspiration, M Train illustrates Smith's deepest literary obsessions, augmented by her own stunning black-and-white Polaroids. Woven through accounts of days in Mexico, Berlin, Michigan and Greenwich Village are Smith's reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, along with the irremediable loss of her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith. Loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, lies at the heart of this exquisite meditation on endings and on beginnings.

Greenlight and St. Joseph's College host Smith for a reading and discussion of her work, followed by a book signing.

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Signing policies: Patti Smith will only sign copies of M Train; no other books or items will be signed. No personalization available. Photographs while in the signing line are permitted, but Smith cannot pose for photos.

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PATTI SMITH is the author of Just Kids, which won the National Book Award in 2010, and of five collections of poetry. Her seminal album Horses has been hailed as one of the top 100 albums of all time. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres; she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. She lives in New York City.

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Greenlight Bookstore has partnered with St. Joseph's College since 2012 to present the Brooklyn Voices series of literary presentations and discussions at Tuohy Hall, part of the college's historic Pratt-designed Brooklyn campus. Past guests have included Junot Diaz, Elizabeth Gilbert, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Greil Marcus, David Mitchell, Colson Whitehead, and others.

More at greenlightbookstore.com/brooklynvoices