Ali's Flair in Love and War
In THE BALLAD OF SPEEDBALL BABY, Ali Smith--punk rock darling turned photographer turned memoirist--sings a paean to the East Village, bad lovers, far-flung travel, and her 90s band, Speedball Baby.
If you were to meet Ali Smith1 today, in her cozy home an hour outside London, it might be hard to reconcile the thoughtful artist/mother/wife and now writer she’s become—discussing her son’s new school’s emphasis on knitting, a recent photography assignment for The Guardian, her husband’s midlife career pivot from j…
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