“In our house, we had very little except for books.
We had no money. But in 50s America people would dump books. Whole libraries.
Or someone died. So we had beautiful books because my family would go to a
church bazaar and buy them for pennies. Really, no one wanted them.” —Singer-songwriter,
poet, and memoirist Patti Smith, on her cultural upbringing in southern New
Jersey, quoted in John Heilpern, “Conversation: Out to Lunch With Patti Smith,” Vanity Fair, November 2015
(The image accompanying this post, of Patti Smith
performing at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, was taken by her sister, Kimberly
Smith, on Dec. 31, 2007.)
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