March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Q: Do you prefer to be recognized for your books, your music, or your poetry? Leonard Cohen: “I’m happy to be recognized at all”
March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Leonard Cohen’s tentative definition of Black Romantic: “A romantic who can tell a joke about it”
March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Video: Complete 2012 PEN Lyrics of Literary Excellence Award Ceremony: Leonard Cohen & Chuck Berry
March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen Evocative Photos: 2013 Leonard Cohen Oakland Concert
March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “My strength is that I have no ideas” Leonard Cohen
March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “The kind of thing I like is that you write a song, and it slips into the world, and they forget who wrote it” Leonard Cohen
March 7, 2023March 7, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen 2012 PEN Awards: Shawn Colvin & Salman Rushdie Smooched By Leonard Cohen
March 7, 2023March 7, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “I find that my work, on a personal level, for me, is prophetic… So I read my own work as personal prophecy. Like my dreams. I think all my dreams have come through.” Leonard Cohen
March 7, 2023March 7, 2023 Allan ShowalterLeonard Cohen “I think, like tofu, the song takes on the flavour of the emotional gravy of what you sense. If one needs one’s own suffering to be addressed, I think you can find that component in a song.” Leonard Cohen
