Link Bits: Patti Smith, Jolie Holland, Cass McCombs, More

And now for some links that caught my eye today…

Musician-Authors:

  • Patti Smith is following up her National Book Award-winning memoir, Just Kids, by writing a detective novel and recording a new LP inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi, the home of Dylan Thomas, and Mikhail Bulgakov’s 1967 novel The Master and Margarita.
  • Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke is working on a book, possibly an “erotic memoir detailing [his] experiences with groupies.”
  • Steve Earle is releasing a new T-Bone Burnett-produced album and novel of the same name: I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive.
  • Jolie Holland wrote an essay for Poetry Magazine on poetry and music.

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