Check out Michael
Silverblatt’s wonderful KCRW interview with Patti Smith about her memoir Just Kids.  (Thanks Magdalena for the link) http-//www.kcrw.com/etc/#10A5E8

And a link to the essay I
mentioned in the post “Taking Chance”  

http-//www.chicagotribun#10ADB3

And on the same subject please
check out a very eloquent review of 'Taking Chance' on Melissa’s website: http://bettyboochronicles.blogspot.com/

WritingTime will be silent for the next three weeks. R. and I are going to India for a family wedding – my nephew Dylan Mattes is marrying the gorgeous Tanaya Apte in Goa.  I've loaded up my new Kindle that my brother and his wife gave me for the trip and won't be traveling with my usual twenty pounds of books. A post about Kindle when I get back.