M Train
Bloomsbury, $32.99 pb, 272 pp, 9781408867693
Memoir
M Train by Patti Smith
by Felicity Plunkett •
The writer is a conductor, opines the 'vaguely handsome, intensely laconic' cowpoke who speaks to Patti Smith as she lingers at 'the frame of a dream'. His words shape Smith's days. 'It's not so easy writing about nothing,' this companion tells her, and she scratches these words over and over onto a wall in her home with a chunk of red chalk.
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