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Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe in the Chelsea Hotel; the memoir of a friendship.

Bob Dylan's memoir, mostly about the years nobody asked about.

Attend a live concert by Dua Lipa, the British pop star known for hits like 'New Rules' and 'Levitating'.

Attend a live concert by the Arctic Monkeys, an English indie rock band known for hits like 'Do I Wanna Know?' and '505'.

Spiegelman's father in Auschwitz, Jews as mice and Nazis as cats; the only comic with a Pulitzer.

A boy in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, drawn by a survivor; the manga on the bomb.

Two years in a cabin by a pond; Thoreau on living deliberately.

Zweig's memoir of Vienna before 1914 and Europe after, finished the day before his suicide.