071 Jeremy Patlen on "Just Kids" by Patti Smith
I had a hard time keeping my cool when I chatted with Jeremy Patlen, Director of Buying at Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver, Colorado, one of the world’s best bookstores in one of the world’s best cities. Jeremy and I talked about the artist’s life and the cities that sustain it, the joys of opera, and a heartbreaking and beautiful memoir by Patti Smith.
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Host: Julie Strauss
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Guest: Jeremy Patlen
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Discussed in this episode:
Just Kids by Patti Smith
(Also check out this gorgeous Illustrated Edition)
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Whereabouts by Jumpha Lahiri
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Comfort Me With Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Photographs
The Chelsea Hotel, Manhattan
My Accidental Visit to the Pandemic’s Party Capital (New York Times)
Woolgathering by Patti Smith
M Train by Patti Smith
Devotions by Patti Smith
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina: A Novel by Zoraida Córdova
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Fuzz by Mary Roach
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Magician by Cólm Toibín
Brooklyn by Cólm Toibín
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Discussed in our Patreon Segment
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Becoming by Michelle Obama
(FYI - there is also a version of this book adapted for young readers, as well as a Becoming Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice – these would make fantastic gifts for the young readers in your life!)
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
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