M Train

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National Bestseller 
Featuring a new postscript including five new photos from Patti Smith

From the National Book Award–winning writer of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the cafés and haunts she has worked in all over the world. This can be a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.”

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes each morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it’s and the world as it used to be, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, we commute to Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul in Mexico; to the fertile moon terrain of Iceland; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; to the West 4th Street subway station, filled with the sounds of the Velvet Underground after the death of Lou Reed; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima.

Woven all over are reflections on the creator’s craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith’s life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith.  
 
Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on commute, detective shows, literature, and coffee. This can be a powerful, deeply moving book by some of the remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.

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