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Writers On A New England Stage: Patti Smith

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On today's show, it's Writers on a New England Stage with Patti Smith, recorded live at the Music Hall in Portsmouth. A poet, musician, and photographer, Smith is often called “the godmother of punk”. She co-wrote the radio hit "Because the Night" with Bruce Springsteen, but soon afterward she stepped off stage to move to Detroit and raise her family. It was with the publication of Just Kids in 2010 that she transformed from downtown cult figure to National Book Award-winning writer. 

Smith's newest book is M Train, which follows her inner life and mind - jumping from past to present, place to place; between dreams and reality, the living and the dead. 

NHPR's Broadcast Sponsor for Writers on a New England Stage: Patti Smith is Heinemann Publishing

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