Our extended cut of Kurt’s conversation with Patti Smith, including three things you didn’t know about the rock legend: 1) mother turned her on to poetry; 2) writes detective stories; 3) enthusiastic golfer.
In ‘Dream of Life,’ a new POV documentary airing on PBS, Patti Smith shows sides of herself that the public rarely gets to see. Smith tells us that it’s also an account of how she rebuilt her life after losing several loved ones. From Studio 360.
Patrik Henry Bass, our friend and senior editor at Essence magazine, is here with some tips, and offers (after the jump) his favorite books of 2010 for this gift-giving season.
Listeners respond: what songs would you preserve in the Library of Congress?
Yesterday, we told you about the Library of Congress’s latest list of ‘significant’ recordings that it will preserve. Takeaway listeners had lots of creative ideas?and a few of them even show off some hidden talents.
