The Slate Book Review is proud to publish Patti Smith’s introduction to Astragal, the 1965 novel by Albertine Sarrazin, which is being reprinted this month by New Directions. Perhaps it is wrong to ...

The Slate Book Review is proud to publish Patti Smith's introduction to "Astragal," the 1965 novel by Albertine Sarrazin, which is being reprinted this May by New Directions. NEW YORK -- Perhaps it is ...

French-Algerian writer Sarrazin was in prison for armed robbery when she wrote her autobiographical first novel. The singer-songwriter Patti Smith celebrates a book that guided her through her youth.

Albertine Sarrazin (1937-1967) produced numerous novels, journals, poems and letters during her brief lifetime, written largely from prison during the 1950s and 1960s. This paper will explore her love ...

French-Algerian writer Sarrazin was in prison for armed robbery when she wrote her autobiographical first novel. The singer-songwriter Patti Smith celebrates a book that guided her through her youth.

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NEW YORK — Perhaps it is wrong to speak of oneself while writing of another, but I truly wonder if I would have become as I am without her. Would I have carried myself with the same swagger, or faced ...