Bread of Angels
2025 memoir by Patti Smith
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Bread of Angels: A Memoir is a 2025 memoir by Patti Smith.[1][2][3]
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| Author | Patti Smith |
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| Publisher | Random House |
| Publication date | November 4, 2025 |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 978-1-101-87512-4 |
In a Vanity Fair article published ahead of its release, Smith revealed that the cover photo was taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.[4]
The title comes from several fond memories in Patti's early years (p. 85):
This is what the writer craves, in a café in the earliest hours, in an empty drawing room of a hotel, or scrawling in a notebook in the pew of a silent cathedral. A sudden shaft of brightness containing the vibration of a particluar moment. Johnny Stahl tying my bootlace. Butchy Magic's fingers extracting the stinger. The unsullied memory of unpremeditated gestures of kindness. These are the bread of angels.