Reads tagged with “Patti Smith”
Favorite Books of 2025
The Moon and the Yew Tree: Patti Smith Reads Sylvia Plath’s Haunting Portrait of Depression
“This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.”
Let There Always Be Light: Dark Matter and the Mystery of Our Mortal Stardust (Patti Smith Reads Rebecca Elson)
“For this we go out dark nights, searching… for signs of unseen things… Let there be swarms of them, enough for immortality, always a star where we can warm ourselves.”
Patti Smith on Libraries and the Transformative Love of Books
On books, bronchitis, and a mother’s “sympathetic exasperation.”
Favorite Books of 2019
From the hidden universe beneath our feet to delight as a countercultural force of courage and resistance, by way of Patti Smith, Toni Morrison, and the Greek myths.
The Indissoluble Filament Connecting Us All: Patti Smith on What It Means to Be an Artist
To a Wreath of Snow: Patti Smith Reads Emily Brontë
In praise of the “voiceless, soulless messenger” that comforts and sustains.
How the World Holds Together: Patti Smith Reads Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Premonition of Particle Physics
A rhapsody of wonder between the scale of atoms and the scale of minds.
The Best of Brain Pickings 2019
Love, poetry, friendship, solitude, and lots of trees.
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