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American singer, songwriter, author and poet (born 1946)
Also known as: Patricia Lee Smith, Pattie Smith, Патти Смит, باتي سميث, 패티 스미스, パティ・スミス
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Arthur Rimbaud1854–1891ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetVisionary, rebellious symbolist poetry that shares her hallucinatory, incantatory lyric voice. (AI reason)
William S. Burroughs1914–1997ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetBeat-era experimental prose and cut-up collage aesthetics akin to her countercultural poetics. (AI reason)
Allen Ginsberg1926–1997ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetEcstatic, chant-like Beat poetry blending spirituality and rebellion. (AI reason)
Jean Genet1910–1986ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLyrical, outsider-romantic prose that elevates marginal lives into myth. (AI reason)
Bob Dylan1941–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetImpressionistic memoir and surreal lyric writing rooted in 1960s–70s New York artistic life. (AI reason)
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Joan Didion1934–2021ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetIntrospective memoir and essays on grief, memory, and American cultural moments. (AI reason)
Kim Gordon1953–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetMusician's memoir of the downtown New York art and rock scene. (AI reason)
Eileen Myles1949–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetConversational, downtown-New-York poetry and autofiction about art and bohemian life. (AI reason)
Jim Carroll1949–2009ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetRaw poetry and memoir of youth and art in the New York punk and poetry scene. (AI reason)
- W. G. Sebald1944–2001ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Meandering, melancholy prose mixing memory, travel, and photographs, much like M Train. (AI reason)
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- Just Kids (2006)
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