“Just Kids” is a classic NYC love story about friendship and art. Had us feeling all the feels.

This week, we read Just Kids by Patti Smith

This memoir follows the duo of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe as they navigate New York City as young creatives who are trying to make a name for themselves. They struggle with poverty and sickness, but in the end, they always have their deep friendship.  

Rebekah Sausmikat, someone who spends her free time roaming around museums in Chelsea, joins me today to talk about a book that is so quintessentially New York.

In this episode we cover: 

• What it would be like to get patted on the head by Salvador Dalí and hang out with Andy Warhol
• Why Ella felt the need to insert a prerecorded ode to Patti Smith
• The absolutely STUNNING writing style of Patti Smith

Open your book and press play on a podcast episode that will have you booking your next trip to New York City to soak up all of the creative energy left behind by Patti and Robert. 

Mentioned in the Pairings section of the podcast:

• DRINK: Manhattan, just drugs
• TV SHOW - Will & Grace, Edie Sedgwick: New York's "It Girl" and Andy Warhol's Muse 
• BOOK - Daisy Jones & The Six, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, LA Woman, The Lyrics
• MOVIE - Infinity - Yayoi Kusama, Bohemian Rhapsody, Woodstock, Across the Universe

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