![]() ![]() 3 position for hardcover nonfiction, is actually the second book Ms. ![]() “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” which just made its debut on The New York Times’s best-seller list in the No. Alert readers will recognize the title as a line from her viral 2016 poem “ Good Bones,” which became a social-media hit and then a wider cultural phenomenon, a “mantra of hope in hard times,” as Slate put it. Smith’s marriage - from her discovery of her husband’s affair to his decision to walk out - and how writing helped her survive it. ![]() The book, “You Could Make This Place Beautiful,” is about the collapse of Ms. The pews were crowded with admirers, many feverishly reading her new memoir even as they waited for her to speak. The American poet and writer Maggie Smith exudes a beatific warmth, so it seemed apt - a felicitous pairing of author and venue - that her recent book tour included an evening at a Brooklyn church. ![]()
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