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Patti Smith

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Favorite ND Books


All of these books I have read and reread. Some copies more battered than others, but all cherished by me.

— Patti Smith


The Colors of Infamy

The Colors of Infamy
A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat

A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat
The Glass Menagerie (Centennial Edition)

The Glass Menagerie (Centennial Edition)
An Episode In The Life Of A Landscape Painter

An Episode In The Life Of A Landscape Painter
Distant Star

Distant Star
Urn Burial

Urn Burial
Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud
Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol
Illuminations

Illuminations

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“ An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter’s mere 87 pages are so multi-faceted and transporting and I get so absorbed that upon finishing I don’t remember anything. Like having a complex cinematic dream that dissipates upon awakening.”

— Patti Smith, The New York Times Book Review on César Aira's An Episode In The Life Of A Landscape Painter

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