The Floating Library is becalmed by a less-than-stellar rock and roll memoir by Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon: 

Unlike Patti Smith’s memoir, Just Friends, with its narrow focus on her years as a struggling poet with her friend and confidant Robert Mapplethorpe in pre-punk New York City, Gordon attempts to describe too much and frequently falls short. She occasionally employs tired and predictable language, particularly when describing the way her adopted home has changed over the decades. “New York City today is a city on steroids.”

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