You may not learn everything you want to know in “Patti Smith: Dream of Life,” an impressionistic portrait of that punk godhead, but you learn just about everything you need. Created over a heroic 11 ...

“M Train” opens inside a dream, as Smith plunges the reader into her psyche without explanation or context. A mysterious ...

Patricia Lee Smith was born in New ... If parent's artistic dreams were shattered on the altar of responsibilities and bills to pay, young Patti nevertheless grew up in a very artistic atmosphere ...