Patti Smith's memoir of a rock-poet

'Just Kids,' a tale of scrambling toward relevancy as the '60s morphed into the '70s, makes a kid from the Reagan-Bush years yearn for the galvanizing turbulence of an era gone by.Nostalgia is never more suspect than when the person romantically harking back is too young to have experienced the era firsthand. But reading Patti Smith's memoir "Just Kids," a tender recollection of her coming of age as a singer-songwriter alongside her artistic soul mate, the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, ...

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