The incomparable Patti Smith celebrates the passing of another decade in her life with The Year of the Monkey. In her seventieth year, this prolific punk-rock poet sets out on a restless journey following a series of concerts in California. As she wanders around Santa Cruz, the Arizona desert, a farm in Kentucky, she thinks about her mentor, Sandy Pearlman, who is in a coma in hospital. She evokes her guilt at being unable to bear to sit and watch …
Author: Aileen Smyth
→With more than thirty years’ experience in the book trade, books continue to absorb and fascinate me. Recommending books to Dubray customers is the highlight of my day; that thrill you feel when someone asks your opinion is very powerful. Aside from being a book nerd, I’m scribbler, a walker and a huge music fan.
Over the years, I have read many of Iris Murdoch’s twenty-six novels. But I still remember the one that drew me in, that led me down the path of excitedly …
At the end of my last post, I was gearing up for my Camino journey, boots and guidebooks organised, and mind set firmly on putting one foot in front of …
If I had to name just one book that best captured the spirit of the age in which it was written, it would have to be The Great Gatsby, published …
My decision to walk the Camino de Santiago this year is more an accident than a life ambition — Italy was my first choice, a trek in Trentino in northern …
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