Video: Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem in Conversation

Punk godmother Patti Smith has won the acclaimed National Book Award for non-fiction in the US for Just Kids , her memoir of her bohemian days in the Chelsea Hotel with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. The book is published by HarperCollins imprint Ecco. The National Book Foundation describes the book thusly: In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and [...]