The Devil’s Pool offers a deeply felt portrait of ordinary lives shaped by enduring choices
grow up in radically different ways—one as a devout intellectual
When eleven-year-old Satsuki and her spirited younger sister Mei move to the countryside with their father
he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice
Glass leads the life of a Parisian bohemian artist
M Train ian The Devil’s Pool offers aIn M Train, Patti Smith invites readers into her daily ritual at a quiet Greenwich Village caf, where black coffee fuels reflections that drift between memory, dream, and reality. From this intimate starting point, her journey unfolds across a vivid landscapevisiting Casa Azul, the stark beauty of Iceland, and a fragile seaside home in Far Rockaway threatened by Hurricane Sandy. Blending travel, literary homage, and personal history, Smith moves