Just Kids
by Patti Smith · first published 2006
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In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
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…out in Paris and London by George Orwell is an excellent insight into the life of a parisian dishwasher in the 1920s. Its also a great exploration of the lives of the working class in that time period. Just Kids by Patti Smith is a beautiful look into the life of a poet and artist.
on “Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professions” ↗Patti Smith wrote about living in the Chelsea with Mapplethorpe in her book Just Kids, a fascinating picture of that scene in the 70's
on “Chelsea Hotel: Where the Walls Still Talk (2013)” ↗Patti Smith's memoir "Just Kids" has terrific detail about daily life in the Chelsea Hotel in the 1960s-70s.
on “The Chelsea Hotel Becomes a New York Battleground” ↗…bubble, so I like to learn how artists think. I don't think I could do any better than David Byrne "How Music Works" which is surprisingly and satisfyingly technical, along with musical, and Patti Smith's "Just Kids" about her time in New York City starting out with artist Robert Mapplethorpe at the Chelsea Hotel. Amusingly, she meets Alan Ginsburg when he tries to pick her up thinking she is a young man. In the…
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗