Has anyone read . . .

Just Kids by Patti Smith?
Yes. Beautifully written. Especially when she talks about her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. The only weak parts is when she name drops the celebrities she cohorted with before they were celebrities.

Thanks! You are the second person to recommend it. Name dropping is a prob, isn't it?

I liked Just Kids very much. As a New Yorker , so much of her story brought the time and place(s) back clearly. Other memoirs I've enjoyed in the past year: Jr Moehringer"s The Tender Bar, Mary Carr's The Liars' Club, and going back a few years, Temple Grandin's Thinking in Pictures.

Thanks. Could you fill me in a bit? I never heard of Moehringer. While I heard of The Liar's Club, the name Mary Carr is only vaguely familiar. I also heard of Temple Grandin (who I assume is a woman) but I do not know why.

Came across Moehringer when I read Andre Agassi's memoir, Open. Moehringer "ghosted" or perhaps "channeled" Agassi, and when Agassi wanted to give him writing credit, M. said he didn't want his name on the book that way. Agassi writes of M.'s involvement in an afterword.
Moehringer is a very good writer, as is Mary Carr. Carr wrote three memoirs, The Liars' Club,I forget the title of next book, started it and didn't finish it, and Lit, which was the third part of her story, most recent book .
Grandin is autistic, famous for her understanding, empathy with animals.
If you google these three, you'll get a clear idea of the subject matter in these memoirs. All deal with adversity, damages, consequences, successes...."Round up the usual suspects/subjects." When I was teaching, English in the old days, Language Arts later on, and I'm not sure what it's named today, I enjoyed giving students a wide array of choices using material I enjoyed. I would have been happy to introduce these three authors to my own students.