PATTI SMITH is a performer, author, and visual artist. Her memoir, Just Kids (Ecco) received the National Book Award. Smith was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; named Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres and the National Legion of Honor by the French Republic; and received Sweden’s Polar Music Prize for significant achievements in music. Her books include Just Kids; Auguries of Innocence: Poems (Ecco); Woolgathering (New Directions); M Train: A Memoir (Knopf); Collected Lyrics 1970-2015 (Ecco); Devotion: Why I Write (Yale University Press); Year of the Monkey (Bloomsbury); and most recently, A Book of Days (Random House). She is a featured writer on Substack, where her twice-weekly writings and readings are available to subscribers.