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A Graphic New Yorker Review for Patti Smith's Year of the Monkey

Originally Published: January 15, 2020

Patti Smith—who started out as a poet, a fact you may well know—has a new memoir out, reviewed this week by illustrator Summer Pierre for the New Yorker. "...She is travelling with a notebook and camera, searching the atmosphere for art and its instructive messages," writes (or rather, draws) Pierre. For this review is in graphic form! A further excerpt:

Patti Smith, New Yorker Cartoon panel

Please have a delightful read of Pierre's work on Smith's Year of the Monkey (Penguin Random House) at the New Yorker.