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Coming up, book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Patti Smith's new memoir, Bread of Angels.

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Patti Smith, known as the Grandmother of Punk, has received several honors, including an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the French Legion of Honor.

But for our book critic Maureen Corrigan, a proud native New Yorker, Smith's greatest honor is that her 2010 memoir, Just Kids, is now part of the canon of essential New York stories.

Smith has just written a new memoir called Bread of Angels.

Here's Maureen's review.

And so it did, and still does.

Maureen Corrigan is a professor of literature at Georgetown University.

She reviewed Patti Smith's new memoir called Bread of Angels.

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