January 4, 2018
Difficult and Devoted: My Abbreviated 2017 Reading List
Another year has come and gone. As always, I wish I had read more—to have spent more hours of this year alone, in the quiet, with nothing but a book, […]
October 19, 2017
Patti Smith, Writing on Euclid Avenue
Tuesday, October 17 was a beautiful day in Cleveland. I worked all day downtown, but I managed to slip out for an afternoon walk. I headed north, strolling around the […]
September 7, 2013
Banga! Banga! Banga!
Patti Smith plays tonight at Detroit’s Majestic Theatre. I’ll be there, touching base with my three-decades-ago self, that self that used to sing along (badly) to cassette tapes of Horses […]