With “Bread of Angels,” Patti Smith has finally given readers the long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s “Just Kids.” Unlike “M Train” (2015) and “Year of the Monkey” (2019), both of which mixed memoir with ...

The publication date Patti Smith chose for her latest memoir, Bread of Angels, is not just happenstance: Nov. 4 is the day her husband Fred "Sonic" Smith died (in 1994), and the birthday of her ...

From cradle to late life, the godmother of punk remembers it all — including, especially, her life with the late Fred “Sonic” Smith. By David Hajdu David Hajdu is a critic, a songwriter and a ...