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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'.

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.

Orwell fights in the Spanish Civil War, is shot through the throat and sees the revolution betrayed.

Orwell as a dishwasher and a tramp; poverty from the inside.