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Patti Smith is a punk rock luminary, and while she hasn’t released a new studio album since 2012, she has spent the interim writing. Her most acclaimed book is 2010’s Just Kids , which chronicled her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and earned her the National Book Award. Smith’s latest is Bread of Angels , a book she said was a decade in the making.

Bread of Angels recounts her relationship with husband Fred “Sonic” Smith, who died in 1994, as well as her upbringing and the start of her music career. The book’s release date, Nov. 4, carries significance as the date of Fred Sonic Smith’s death, as well as the late Mappl

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