Congratulations, Patti Smith

Posted by in Beat News on November 19, 2010 12:54 am / 1 comment

Patti Smith’s book, Just Kids, has just won a National Book Award for non-fiction.

In issue seven of Beatdom (the “music” issue) Michael Hendrick wrote about Patti Smith. In the coming days that article will be added to our archives. You can still buy or download issue seven through our store.

Here’s Patti from her book:

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David S. Wills is the founder and editor of Beatdom magazine and the author of The Dog Farm. He travels a lot, and is currently working as a professor in China. His latest book is called Scientologist! William S. Burroughs the Weird Cult. You can read more about and by David at his blog, www.davidswills.com

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  1. michael hendrick says:
    December 25, 2011 at 12:52 am

    wow…i googled patti smith to get the article and i see that i completely missed this post. it is great.

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