![]() I just wanted to keep writing and writing and writing. "I wrote whatever came to mind," she says. Or the time she ended up singing rock songs all night with chess prodigy Bobby Fisher. Or how she joined an obscure society of philosophers and scientists called the Continental Drift Club. Or remembrances of her pilgrimages to the homes and graves of famous writers. Sometimes her mental train took her into a meditation about a sublime cafe or a perfect cup of coffee. I just hopped on the train and see where I went every day." "It's like a mental train, a train of thought," Smith says over coffee at New York's Whynot Coffee. ![]() M Train is a very different project, impressionistic and digressive. Smith spent years crafting it, after promising Mapplethorpe, who was then dying of AIDS, that she'd write about him. It spent 42 weeks on the best-seller lists. Her last memoir, Just Kids, from 2010, chronicled her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe before he became known as one of the best and most provocative photographers of the 20th century and before she became, well, a rock goddess. ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title M Train Author Patti Smith ![]()
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