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 …
Category: Biography & Memoir
Michael Harding is an author and playwright. His creative chronicle of ordinary life in the Irish midlands is published as a weekly column in the Irish Times. He has written numerous …
Reading makes me happy. When I can combine it with my love for the Great Outdoors, I am positively elated. This entwining of two wonderful things can happen two ways: …
Despite being someone who has to be virtually at death’s door to even contemplate visiting a doctor, I’ve read a fair few medical biographies recently: Brainstorm, Admissions, No Tears Left… …
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