Patti Smith to Share New Writing in Substack Newsletter
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPatti Smith — singer, songwriter, poet, author and icon — will be sharing her writing in a new weekly newsletter on Substack.In a message posted Wednesday on her highly entertaining Instagram page, Smith wrote that she aims to use the newsletter to “form an inter-connective body of work for a responsive community,” posting “weekly ruminations, shards of poetry, music, and musings on whatever subject finds its way from thought to pen, news of the mind, pieces of this world, free to all.”A post shared by This is Patti Smith (@thisispattismith)Smith’s abilities as a storyteller are on ample display in her National Book Award-winning memoir “Just Kids,” a recounting of her early years in New York City with the late