46 results for '"Patti Smith"'

From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. He arrived penniless in New York City at seventeen; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, cofounding such seminal bands...

The National Book Award-winner Patti Smith updates her treasure box of a childhood memoir about "clear unspeakable joy" and "just the wish to know" with a radiant new afterword, written during the...

"One of the 25 Greatest Rock Memoirs of All Time” --Rolling Stone Magazine (#8)“Sensitive and emotionally raw… it’s also wildly funny”--The New York Times Book ReviewA powerfully original memoir of...

Rainer Maria Rilke’s powerfully touching letters to an aspiring young poet.    At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising...

As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman’s perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes—identity,...

Rayya Elias composes “a classic, blood-stained love letter to bohemian NYC”* in this raw, powerful memoir—with an Introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert.“Terrific...Rayya’s stories blew mine away...

An unfiltered photo album capturing the gritty glamor of New York's creative soul from 1969 to 1971 From 1969 to 1971, the photographer and filmmaker Albert Scopin lived in the creative soul of New...

A multilayered exploration of poetry, authorship, and digital intelligence by "a writer of immense poetic power" (The Guardian) Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award, Translated Literature ...

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAYA New York Times Notable Book of 2017The flâneur is the quintessentially masculine figure of privilege and leisure who...

An unflinching exploration of aging from one of the twentieth century's most influential photographersFor more than half a century, Richard Avedon sought to represent advancing age in the faces of...

Told with grit, reverence, and doses of gleeful mischief, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is a front-row seat to music history—and the madness behind chasing down the world’s greatest collection of rock...

THE ROYAL WE is a poetic survey of a time set in a magical city that once was and is no more. It is a memoir written by Roddy Bottum, a musician and artist, that documents through prose his coming...

"Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi" —Vanity FairAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love...

There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the history, culture, and personalities of the decade through hundreds of hand-selected...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister. "I love this book. It moves like a souped-up pickup truck." -- Patti Smith, author of...

A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city's role in establishing the career of America's most famous architect "Traces the transitive...

LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister. “I love this book. It moves like a souped-up pickup truck." — Patti Smith, author of...

"Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading."--Suzi Feay, Financial Times "Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a...

100+ of the best albums by women, as chosen by musicians, DJs, producers, journalists, radio hosts and music industry insidersContributors include Nina Kraviz (DJ), Nick Mason (Pink Floyd), KT...

From ancient Egypt to today, enjoy a sweeping survey of world history through its most memorable words in this completely revised and updated nineteenth edition. More than 150 years after its...