Patti Smith Pens Sequel to 'Just Kids'

Poet, musician and artist Patti Smith has announced plans to release a sequel of sorts to her award winning 2010 memoir 'Just Kids". 'Kids' documents her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe. It won the 2010 National Book Award for Nonfiction. It was also featured on numerous national best book lists. Unlike 'Kids', 'M Train' will chronicle "the inevitable losses that come to us in life – and the consolation we might salvage from them." The book will also feature black & white Polaroids by Smith.

Photography Claire Alexandra Hatfield, jacket design Carol Devine Carson

"M Train is a journey through 'eighteen stations'. It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima."

"Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself."
- courtesy of publishers Knopf Doubleday

M Train comes out October 6.