THE WILD SUCCESS OF
2010’S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-
WINNING JUST KIDS MADE
SMITH AN UNLIKELY LITERARY
STAR. NOW, THE DREAMLIKE
ANECDOTES IN THE PUNK
POET’S LATEST MEMOIR
UNFOLD MORE LIKE THE STACK
OF OLD POLAROIDS SHE FINDS
IN A BOX IN HER NEW YORK
APARTMENT: “ONE AFTER
ANOTHER, EACH A TALISMAN ON
A NECKLACE OF CONTINUOUS
TRAVELS.” MONKEY MIGHT
NOT HAVE KIDS’ STRING OF
FAMOUS NAMES OR ELECTRIC
YOUTH-IN-REVOLT ENERGY,
BUT THE SLIM VOLUME’S LOVELY,
MINOR-KEY MELANCHOLY
STILL GETS UNDER THE SKIN.
Ye a r of the
4 Monkey
World of
Warcraft
Classic
3
→ World of Warcraft shook up online
gaming when it launched back in 2004,
but that multiverse has changed quite
a bit since then. In the past 15 years, the
field has become crowded with enter
taining fantasy epics, but WoW never
lost its diehard fans, who have stuck by
the PC game through endless dragon
cataclysms and anthropomorphicpanda
takeovers. For those who will accept
no substitutes, the surprisingly fresh
WoW Classic allows players to revert the
game to its original mid2000s form,
when it cast a digital spell over hordes
of swordandsorceryloving teens.
Time to decide whether that powerful
nostalgia hit is worth losing another
million hours of your life.
GAMES
By Patti Smith
BOOKS
EW●COM SEPTEMBER 2019 13
SMITH: STEVEN SEBRING;
WORLD OF WARCRAFT
: BLIZZARD
