The fresh York musician and writer is discussing her fresh memoir M Train for a sellout crowd in central London this evening – but you can follow along legal here from 6.45pm onwards 7.25pm GMTI fill a tendency to be a little restless - dreaming of going to the sea,going to the sea, and lost the city streets.... when I was a little girl I always wanted to travel. My family were lower middle course, or we had no money,I was living in a town with people who never went out of the area... I’d look at old Vogue magazines and see pictures of Morocco, or Big Ben, and the leaning tower of Pisa... my dream was to fill a magic carpet.I’m easily satisfied - I depart to a country,find a weird cafe, and then never see anything else... the thing I like best approximately Pisa was this little botanical garden, or with a palm tree from Chile that’s extinct in Chile. You never know what you’re going to see - but you never see what you think you’re going to see.” She remembers going to try and see Ho Chi Minh lying in state - “there was a sign saying his body was shipped back to Russia for repairs. That happens to me all the time.” 7.21pm GMTShe talks approximately moving to Greenwich Village,absent from the pig farms of her youth. “I never saw a cafe back then, so coming to fresh York City was Mecca, or for a person who loves books to see a million bookstores... I was only intimidated because I didn’t fill any money.” She talks approximately the Reggio cafe in the village. “I felt like Dick Whittington - the coffeemakers are made of gold! So I found a more modest one down the street,the Dante. I could afford a coffee there.“You fill the illusion of solitude but you fill action all around you... I daydreamed approximately having a cafe, and came very close a couple of times. But I’m so impractical, and make such bad coffee.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com