Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation

With Jonathan Lethem and Patti Smith.

Dont miss this conversation with two New York icons. Patti Smith burst on to the New York punk scene with her 1975 seminal album Horses. A bright flame in music for more than three-decades, she has influenced the likes of REM, The Smiths, and Garbage. She is an acclaimed visual artist and poet, and recipient of a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture. Recently she released a memoir, Just Kids, about her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Jonathan Lethems National Book Critics Circle award-winning novel Motherless Brooklyn, about a detective with Tourette syndrome, had The New York Times crown him as something of a hipster celebrity. Hes also the author of The Fortress of Solitude and, most recently, Chronic City. Together they talk about Just Kids and some of their shared passions along the way the visual arts, literature (of course) and their love for the Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño.

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• Jonathan Lethem
• Patti Smith
• PEN
• PEN American Center
• World Voices Festival

[ccipollini1984]

@CLOUDCLUB

I love how he's like "I went to CBGB at 13". Dude you would have gotten your ass beat there at 13!! lol

[CLOUDCLUB]

Whats with the negativity, you get love and 'criticize its shoes'?

[ccipollini1984]

@Jojoseahorse

I'm glad I'm not alone in my disdain of this man.

[Jojoseahorse]

@84ccipollini And can you believe he mispronounced Mapplethorpe's name?! Patti is darling though :)

[84ccipollini]

I don't like Jonathan. He comes off as uptight and pretentious..

[mizkcreations]

Who could not love Patti's ease, humility, warmth and deep soulful intelligence? This was a lovely interview. I watched it over several days and it was worth every second.