Review: Just Kids by Patti Smith
ecco, January 2010
Just Kids starts with death. “I was asleep,” writes Patti Smith about Robert Mapplethorpe: her lover, collaborator, partner in crime. She’d called the hospital where he lay fading, because of AIDS, only the doctors had given him mor...
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