Episode 159 is a book club episode. Gen and Jette talk about Patti Smith's memoir Just Kids. The book chronicles her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe and their early days in New York City before they were the artists we know them as today. Show NotesThis book. THIS BOOK! We just want to be artists doing all the things with our soulmate muses.We saw Patti Smith at Budweiser Stage last summer. She was incredible and exactly as cool as you'd think. Listen to her cover of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush" if you want to cry. Patti Smith wrote this book for Robert Mapplethorpe and we'll by crying about it forever.Check out the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to see some of his work. We're going to be reading everything else Patti Smith has written.This podcast is taking a stand against deckled edges. They are the WORST.Next episode we'll be honouring non-fiction November and NaNoWriMo (though we are not participating) with Haruki Murakami's book, Novelist as a Vocation.Our next book club selection is Gen' pick, and we'll be reading Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, about a labyrinthine house.Other Books by Patti SmithM TrainDevotion

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