Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation

[@mizkcreations]

Who could not love Patti's ease, humility, warmth and deep soulful intelligence? This was a lovely interview. I watched it over several days and it was worth every second.

[@Broatch6]

♥️ Patti's great generosity of spirit on full show here ! ♥️ one of Rock n Rolls greatest Living Legends

[@waakdfms2576]

Thank you for posting this interview. Patti is one of my all time greatest spirit teachers, and we are so blessed to share this time on the planet with such an angel.

[@BernieKellman]

Patti Smith is a treasure...so 'the real thing' in every way. So wise, so truly life-loving and so unafraid to be honest. Mr. Lethem is a mensch...I love about half of his books...but...hey....I listened and listened for the Roberto Bolano talk...sorta thin on the ground considering the above promise that they address their shared love of Bolano...I heard a few glancing sentence on the topic.

[@baronsaturday2103]

Like all interviews Patti does, you never get bored, it's always interesting! -Luv ya Patti!

[@cflatminor594]

resonate life with them

[@Broatch6]

She co-wrote the little known play Cowboy Mouth with Sam Shepherd when they were both living at the Chelsea Hotel in New York in the early 70s . Shepherd's rugged good looks + control of language really impressed her . The play's subject matter was loosely based on the doomed love affair they were having at the time. They pushed a type-writer back + forth across the floor. Later , much later , a lifetime later , she wrote the Introduction to Sam Shepherd's The One Inside. She wrote : it occured to me that everything I ever knew of Sam , and he of me , was still inside of us.

[@Broatch6]

As a child growing up in the 50s Patti woz very much a tomboy. Not only did she feel boy rhythms , but she wished she'd been born a boy. Because she felt different , the conventional life of meeting a man , marrying + starting a family was never going to be for her. So, penniless, she moved to New York and hung out with artists : beatnick poets + rock n rollers. Back then she was trying to become a poet. She teemed up with Lenny Kaye who started playing electric guitar at her poetry recitals. When Sandy Perlman told her she should front a rock n roll band she just laughed + told him she already had a good job working in a bookstore. And as we know she took a temporary break from being a rock n roll rebel to marry Fred Sonic Smith and have 2 wonderful children : both now accomplished musicians in their own right.

[@Broatch6]

As a child growing up in the 50s Patti woz very much a tomboy. Not only did she feel boy rhythms , but she wished she'd been born a boy. Because she felt different , the conventional life of meeting a man , marrying + starting a family was never going to be for her. So, penniless, she moved to New York and hung out with artists : beatnick poets + rock n rollers. Back then she was trying to become a poet. She teemed up with Lenny Kaye who started playing electric guitar at her poetry recitals. When Sandy Perlman told her she should front a rock n roll band she just laughed + told him she already had a good job working in a bookstore.

[@ericgrabowski3896]

Patti smith is dope.

[@maloneyroo]

I think he asks good questions. I like hearing about her art, her collages acc. most music interviewers would not touch art as a subject. He knows literature and art. whats w the hating?

[@Broatch6]

Hey Pete what's with the hating ? Try to imagine yourself in the presence of one of Rock n Rolls greatest Living Legends ! Being on-stage with her + having to ask her questions ! I'd be totally tongue-tied . I wouldn't know what to say ! Frankly I'd feel a bit of a schmuck ! It's not hating ! It's nerves ! But she does what she always does which is to try and put her interviewer at ease . Make him feel someone special (which he is !). ♥️ Her great generosity of spirit !!

[@Broatch6]

Almost as old as God now she may have lost her looks. But she still got that great energy + that great generosity of spirit. And that great voice ! ♥️

[@Jojoseahorse]

@84ccipollini And can you believe he mispronounced Mapplethorpe's name?! Patti is darling though :)

[@cflatminor594]

we dont really own, we have a guardianship for while

[@Broatch6]

She read Burroughs , Ginsberg , Camus , Sartre , Blake , Baudelaire + of course Rimbaud . As well as a whole lotta others. But her own meditative writing style seems to be influenced by the late + great Sam Shepherd - a former lover and life -long soul-mate

[@CLOUDCLUB]

Whats with the negativity, you get love and 'criticize its shoes'?

[@baronsaturday2103]

She loves them. Probably reminds her of the old Ramones days, or the 1970s. She wore them too at the time.

[@84ccipollini]

I don't like Jonathan. He comes off as uptight and pretentious..

[@Broatch6]

God pal ... Borrow some of Patti's humility + great generosity of spirit ... In the presence of one of Rock n Rolls Living Legends U are gonna be very nervous + U gonna try to show off . Nice of her to put him at ease !