Already a lock to be the must-have literary gift this holiday season, Patti Smith has announced and detailed her second memoir M Train—a follow-up and extension of Just Kids, the 2010 National Book Award winner for nonfiction, which followed Smith’s touching and complicated relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1970s.
M Train will cover a wider range of topics (and time) than its predecessor, and is being described as “a journey through eighteen ‘stations’” of Smith’s life. The book will start out in Cafe ‘Ino (Smith’s favorite Greenwich Village cafe), and move on to address events that include living through Hurricane Sandy and the loss of her husband Fred “Sonic” Smith (of MC5). The release will also include black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself.
That’s the cover art below, taken at Cafe ‘Ino on the day before it closed.
M Train is out October 6 on Knopf.
(via Pitchfork)
