Singer Patti Smith performs during the Cinema Against AIDS gala 2010 as part of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, held at the Hotel du Cap, Eden Roc in Cap d'Antibes, France. — Photo by Ian Langsdon/EPA/Corbis
Patti Smith's Just Kids
Far richer and more evocative than a career play-by-play, Smith's book tells movingly of the years she shared with her soul mate, roommate and sometime lover, Robert Mapplethorpe (the late, controversial photographer). Theirs is the story of unknown downtown "kids" on the brink of fame during the mid-'60s and '70s, a time when anything seemed possible. Smith, a poet-turned-songwriter whose biggest hit was "Because the Night," co-written with Bruce Springsteen, depicts New York's edgy, exuberant art and music scenes of the era with the voice of the true insider she was. Winner of a 2010 National Book Award, Just Kids is now in paperback.
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