Can’t Get Enough Patti Smith – Music Monday

What can I say? I love Patti Smith.

A list of Patti’s 40 Favorite Books by Mike Springer for Open Culture:

• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
• The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Billy Budd by Herman Melville
• Songs of Innocence by William Blake
• The Wild Boys by William Burroughs
• Howl by Allen Ginsberg
• A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
• Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
• Wittgenstein’s Poker by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
• Villette by Charlotte Bronte
• The Process by Brion Gysin
• Cain’s Book by Alexander Trocchi
• Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
• The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
• The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
• Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag
• The Oblivion Seekers by Isabelle Everhardt
• The Women of Cairo by Gérard de Nerval
• Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
• Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
• The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
• The Death of Virgil by Hermann Broch
• Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters by J.D. Salinger
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• A Night of Serious Drinking by René Daumal
• Swann in Love by Marcel Proust
• A Happy Death by Albert Camus
• The First Man by Albert Camus
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf
• Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
• Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
• Anything by W.G. Sebald
• The Thief’s Journal or anything by Jean Genet
• The Arcades Project or anything by Walter Benjamin
• Poet in New York by Federico García Lorca
• The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Böll
• The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola
• Ice or anything by Anna Kavan
• The Divine Proportion by  H.E. Huntley
• Nadja by André Breton

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   katmphotography February 2, 2018 at 5:44 am

   she is ‘blessed, amount women’ – she’s my heroine. seen her live many times. an incredible woman, poet, performer – love that she hasn’t lost her ‘punk’ attitude. i’m away to listen to ‘Horses’ again…. thank you xx

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      Holly Troy February 2, 2018 at 7:02 am

      So glad you are inspired to listen to more Patti! I love her, too. Hurray!

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