St. Mark's Bookshop

St. Mark's Bookshop presents:Patti SmithTuesday, January 3rd at 7PMThe reading will take place at:St. Marks Bookshop31 Third Avenue (at 9th Street)New York, NY 10003 Subway: 6 to Astor Place, N/R to 8th Street, L to 14th St/3rd AvenueThis is a free eventFor more information please visit the shop, call (212) 260-7853 or email stmarksbooks@gmail.comSt. Mark's Bookshop presents National Book Award winner Patti Smith reading from WOOLGATHERING! In this small, luminous memoir, Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self—and its "clear, unspeakable joy"—with memories both real and envisioned from her twenties on New York's MacDougal Street, the street of cafés.Woolgathering was completed, in Michigan, on Patti Smith's 45th birthday and originally published in a slim volume from Raymond Foye's Hanuman Books. Twenty years later, New Directions has presented it in an augmented edition, featuring writing that was omitted from the book's first printing, along with new photographs and illustrations."Best Reading Series" - The Gothamist, 2011