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Just Kids

by Patti Smith

Just Kids

Paperback, 288 pages, Harpercollins, List Price: $16 | purchase

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Book Summary

Artist and musician Patti Smith recounts her romance, lifetime friendship and shared love of art with Robert Mapplethorpe in an illustrated memoir, with a colorful cast of characters including Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and William Burroughs.

Awards and Recognition

National Book Award (2010)

76 weeks on NPR Paperback Nonfiction Bestseller List

NPR stories about Just Kids

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New In Paperback: Nov. 1-7

Veteran short-story writer Alice Munro and novelist Elizabeth Kostova contemplate lovers and losers, while international human rights activist Greg Mortenson, comedian George Carlin, and musician and avant-garde icon Patti Smith reflect on their lives in new memoirs.

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What We're Reading

What We're Reading, Jan. 20-26, 2010

This week, a novel from Jonathan Dee looks at the costs (and wild benefits) of living wealthy in America, and a memoir by Patti Smith recalls the singer's long friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe. Also, T.C. Boyle offers a new book of short stories, and a novel dives into Britain's mid-1950s "Cyprus Emergency."

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