Patti Smith's New York stories

Punk poet Patti Smith first met Robert Mapplethorpe when she moved to New York in the late 60s, and the pair became inseparable. Now she has written a memoir of their time together, from hanging out with Ginsberg and Warhol to her rise as a hit singer and his career as a photographer. She talks to Gaby Wood, and we publish an extract from her book, Just KidsAt the Robert Miller Gallery in New York, a place that has long provided a home for her association with the photographer Robert Mapplethorp...

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