Literature, Poetry, Canadian authors (Non-fiction), Bestsellers (Non-fiction)
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This is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the poet and musician. It features poems, excerpts from his private notebooks,…
lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, and offers an unprecedentedly intimate look inside the life and mind of a singular artist. A reckoning with a life lived deeply and passionately, with wit and panache, "The Flame" is a valedictory work. "This volume contains my father's final efforts as a poet," writes Cohen's son, Adam Cohen, in his foreword. "It was what he was staying alive to do, his sole breathing purpose at the end." Leonard Cohen died in late 2016. But "each page of paper that he blackened," in the words of his son, "was lasting evidence of a burning soul." Bestseller. 2018.
Each week over a million and a half listeners tune into WTF with Marc Maron to hear Marc and a…
guest do something remarkable: talk. 'Waiting for the punch' is not simply a collection of these interviews, but instead something more wondrous: a running narrative of the world's most recognizable names working through the problems, doubts, joys, triumphs and failures we all experience. With each chapter covering a different topic: parenting, childhood, relationships, sexuality, success, failures and others, Punch becomes a sort of everyman's guide to life. 2017. Uniform title: WTF (Podcast)