Patti Smith's "Bread of Angels: a Memoir" (2026)

New York City: Random House (book, memoir), 2026.
8.125" x 5.75" x 1", 277 pages, hardcover in dust jacket, ISBN 978-1-101-87512-4.

Bread of Angels: a Memoir by Patti Smith, as published in hardcover in dust jacket by Random House (New York City) in 2025. Production editor was Dennis Ambrose, managing editor was Rebecca Berlant, production manager was Kevin Garcia, and copy editor was Madeline Hopkins. Jacket design by Greg Mollica. Cover photograph of Patti Smith is by Robert Mapplethorpe.

This includes a few short recollections of William S. Burroughs including Burroughs visiting her and cooking dinner while she was recovering, and of the deaths and funerals of Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.

The copy shown is a later printing, signed by Patti Smith, acquired from Strand Books (New York City).

Contents: 

• Prelude
• "The Age of Reason"
• "The Gardens"
• "Illuminations"
• "art/rats"
• "Dancing Barefoot"
• "My Madrigal"
• "Mortal Shoes"
• "Grant"
• "Peaceable Kingdom"
• "A Drop of Blood"
• "Vagabondia"
• About the Photographs
• About the Archives
• About the Author
• About the Type