Category: Patti Smith

Boston and other Novemberish things

Your correspondent will be in Boston this weekend for the Boston international Antiquarian Book Fair (Fri. 7 to Sun. 9 November), and I will have copies of Another Green World, The Elfland Prepositions, and The Critical Mess. Come say hello (Cummins booth 213).

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current reading :

— Peter Straub. Wreckage [and:] What Happens in Hello Jack. 447; 141 pages. 2 vols., Subterranean Press, 2025. [Dust jackets after photographs by Jenny Calivas].

— Ellen Datlow, editor.  Night. Dreadful Dark : Tales of Nighttime Horror [bound dos à dos with] Day. Merciless Sun : Tales of Daylight Horror. 171, [5] ; 147, [7] pp. Saga Press, [2025].
Anthology of 18 original stories by Jeffrey Ford, Brian Evenson, Pat Cadigan, and others.

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I am really looking forward to the new edition of The Crimson Bears by Tom La Farge, forthcoming from Tough Poets press with an introduction by Wendy Walker. The novel was first published in two volumes, The Crimson Bears (1993) and A Hundred Doors (1995), and found a small and appreciative group of readers. It is well worth reading.

http://www.toughpoets.com/la_farge_crimson_bears.htm

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[updated 5 November]

person holding a copy of Bread of Angels by Oatti Smith on an autumn afternoon

I bought a book today at my local book shop, Watchung Booksellers  :

— Patti Smith. Bread of Angels. Random House, [2025].
The dust jacket photo is a Mapplethorpe portrait of Patti from the Wave session.

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A Book of Ryhmes by Charlotte Brontë

Forthcoming 21 April 2025 from Tartarus Press in association with the Brontë Society :

The first publication of A BOOK OF RYHMES by Charlotte Brontë reproduces her handwritten pages in facsimile at original size, as well as enlarged, alongside a transcription of the poems. The book includes an Introduction by Patti Smith, and essays by Barbara Heritage and Henry Wessells. The book will be available in hardcover and paperback.

Details and advance order information here :

http://tartaruspress.com/bronte-a-book-of-ryhmes.html

The manuscript book of verse was composed by Charlotte Brontë in the autumn of 1829. It was known to her biographer, Mrs. Gaskell, and had last been sighted in 1916. Readers of the Endless Bookshelf will recall the reappearance of the manuscript at the New York Book Fair on 21 April 2022, and its sale to the UK charity, Friends of National Libraries for donation to the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth. And now everyone can read Charlotte’s Ryhmes.

Note added 5 April : your correspondent is a bit giddy with happiness, pictured here holding the first copy of A BOOK OF RYHMES in New York City.