![]() ![]() ![]() How to mourn for what’s lost without allowing loss to take over? While leaving space for what’s lost to return in an old or new form? These are the questions at the heart of “M Train,” Smith’s captivating follow-up to her National Book Award-winning memoir “Just Kids.” “M Train” takes us on a journey through the “stuff” of Smith’s bookshelves and suitcases, as well as of her mind and memory. ![]() Already traveling very light (somehow having left her suitcase and laptop at her hotel) Smith writes, “I dumped the meager contents of my sack onto my bed, examining them over and over as if the notebook would appear in the negative recesses between the other items.” Though disappointed, she consoles herself by acknowledging that she has “enough stuff.” Days later, the lost notebook appears in the mail, with no return address or note, and Smith takes its mysterious return in stride. Upon returning home to New York from a long trip to Japan, Patti Smith discovers that she has left her Moleskine writing notebook on the plane. ![]()
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