++ You may have been wondering how Dr. Oliver Sacks could be writing as he was dying from terminal cancer. The two lengthy New York Times op-eds were astounding for a man in his condition. Now he leaves us with his last book Gratitude.
++Patti Smith surprised me with her wonderful memoir Just Kids and repeats her magic with M Street, which had been the focus both of a New York Book Review article and a portrait of Patti in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. M Street takes us to her favorite haunts as well as a side trips to French Guyana to collect rocks from Devil's Island to give but later put on Jean Genet grave. From her hideaway on Rockaway Beach Patti Smith weaves together the literary influences on her throughout the memories of her life with her late husband and children.
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