M Train

"That transcendent transience is what beloved musician, artist, and poet Patti Smith explores in M Train ( public library ) — a most unusual and breathtaking book: part memoir, part dreamscape, part elegy for the departed and for time itself."

"Patti Smith writes exquisitely and achingly about loss and the things that matter to her in her second memoir. Unlike the mostly chronological narrative of Just Kids, about her relationship with artist Robert Mapplethorpe, M Train is a running mental locomotive of memories and dreams, with little about her performance career. The tone is elegiac, melancholic and meditative as she evokes people who died far too young, including — most devastatingly — her husband Fred “Sonic” Smith and her brother Todd, both in 1994. But the book is energized by various passions, including coffee, detective shows, far-flung pilgrimages to the graves of artistic and literary touchstones, and a rundown property she bought near the beach in Far Rockaway, Queens, just weeks before Hurricane Sandy devastated the area."

"M Train, by Patti Smith"

"in "M Train" I discovered we share a love of detective and crime shows, as well as black coffee."