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I Knew This Place' by John MacKenna is a collection of twenty-eight of his radio essays from RTE's radio programme 'Sunday Miscellany.'
John MacKenna is the author of twenty-seven books both fiction and non-fiction. A skilled actor and narrator, he won a Jacob's Radio Award for his documentary about Leonard Cohen. The radio essays in this collection were described by The Irish Times as 'enchantments woven with rich and intimate language, snapshots...
62) Cosmo
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If reading most short story collections is like canoeing gently down a tranquil and picturesque river, then reading Spencer Gordon's Cosmo is like riding a jetski over Niagara Falls with Leonard Cohen whispering in your ear. You'll join Matthew McConaughey as he drives naked across the desert in a surreal dark night of the soul. You'll meet a young wrestling fan half-nelsoned by circumstances and a sister's best intentions. You'll hear a
...63) Fantasía lumpen
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"Todo el mundo sabe que la guerra ha terminado, que los buenos perdieron, que la pelea estaba amañada... Los pobres siguen siendo pobres, los ricos se hacen más ricos. Eso es lo que pasa. Todo el mundo lo sabe", cantaba Leonard Cohen. Ahora nuestras voces se apagan, nuestra lucha declina, nuestra lengua se rompe en pedazos, nuestros sueños son negados. Y vamos convirtiéndonos lentamente en fantasmas...
Cada cuento de Fantasía lumpen es huella...
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To really, understand God, you have to understand atheism.
Atheism and Christianity are often, placed at polar opposite ends of a spectrum, forever in stark conflict with each other. In The Aesthetics of Atheism, Kutter Callaway and Barry Taylor propose a radical alternative: atheism and theism need each other. In fact, atheism offers profound and necessary theological insights into the heart of Christianity itself. To get at these truths, Callaway...
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Con una serie de obituarios libres y conversacionales dedicados a los grandes escritores y poetas de lengua inglesa de los últimos siglos: Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Frank O'Hara, Leonard Cohen, Anne Sexton, entre otros, la autora enuncia la muerte de la lengua inglesa con veintinueve poemas sobre el deceso de creadores cuya obra fue escrita en ese idioma. Lejos de la solemnidad...
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A los 22 años, Marianne Ihlen viajó a la isla griega de Hidra con el escritor Axel Jensen. Mientras Axel escribía, Marianne se ocupaba de la casa, hasta que este la abandonó con su recién nacido por otra mujer. Un día, mientras Marianne compraba en una pequeña tienda, entró un hombre que le pidió que se uniera a él y a unos amigos en su mesa. Se presentó como Leonard Cohen, entonces un poeta canadiense poco conocido.
'So Long, Marianne'...
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Steven Machat was born into the entertainment business. His father, Marty, was one of the most successful post-war American entertainment lawyers, with a glittering array of clients from Sam Cooke and the Rolling Stones through to the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson and the stars of London's Swinging Sixties. A fateful introduction to Frank Sinatra on the top floor suite of Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel in 1968 was all the encouragement that teenage...
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It was the locus of hip, the venue for cool, the scene of the scene. Through its doors passed the likes of Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison, Gordon Lightfoot, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Spann, Saul Rubinek, Rich Little, IrvingLayton, William Hawkins, John Hammond, David Wiffen, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Bruce Cockburn, T-Bone Walker, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Phil Ochs, Odetta, Tom Rush, Jesse Colin Young,...
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On September 29, 1967, Mr. Bonzai attended his very first recording session at the invitation of John Lennon. The location was London's EMI Studios, now Abbey Road, and the song was I Am the Walrus. In attendance were George, Paul, Ringo, producer George Martin, and engineer Ken Scott. This privileged session with the most influential rock band in history set the stage for a life exploring the world of music and recording. In 1980, Mr. Bonzai settled...
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What if some of the artists we feel as if we know-Meryl Streep, Neil Young, Bill Murray-turned up in the course of our daily lives?
This is what happens to Rose McEwan, an ordinary woman who keeps having strange encounters with famous people. In this engrossing, original novel-in-stories, we follow her life from age 17, when she takes a summer writing course led by a young John Updike, through her first heartbreak (witnessed by Joni Mitchell) on...
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45 Thought Crimes conveys a lineage of resistance and places the reader squarely in the driver's seat of their own destiny. During the Reagan and Bush years, author Lynn Breedlove tried to ignore the political climate to focus on his own self destruction. When that didn't work, he got sober and committed his life to art. After publishing his first two books and spending a career on tour, life took an unexpected turn. Breedlove spent the next decade...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 Leonard Cohen was born in 1934 in Montreal, Canada. His father, Nathan, was a prosperous Canadian Jew with a high-end clothing business. His mother, Masha, was a Russian Jew who had immigrated to Canada with her family in 1927.
#2 The family was well-off, although not as wealthy as some other families in Westmount. They had a nanny, a chauffeur, and a gardener who...
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Jernigan and Jones celebrate the vitality and diversity of poetry inspired by, or in conversation with, myth. Looking back to the early 20th century and forward to the contemporary, Earth and Heaven gathers voices and stories as it moves through "four ages" of mythic history. This collection tells a story of its own about the stories we tell each other.
Featuring poems by:
• Harry Thurston,
• Daniel David Moses,
• Douglas LePan,
• Gwendolyn...
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¿Qué tienen en común los poemas de Baudelarie, Silvia Plath o Leonard Cohen con los ahorcamientos para alcanzar el clímax durante la asfixia autoerótica?
En un control rutinario en la carretera de entrada a Zaragoza, la Policía detiene un vehículo sospechoso. En su interior encuentran varios cerdos muertos y diversos instrumentos para desollarlos, algo extraño, pero no especialmente preocupante... si no fuera porque en la boca de uno de los...
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The story of the enigmatic beauty who captured the hearts of two extraordinary men.At 22, Marianne Ihlen travelled to the Greek island of Hydra with writer Axel Jensen. While Axel wrote, Marianne kept house, until Axel abandoned her and their newborn son for another woman. One day while Marianne was shopping in a little grocery store, in walked a man who asked her to join him and some friends outside at their table. He introduced himself as Leonard...
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In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In Arrival, acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom? Written with wit and panache, Arrival tells the story of Canada's literary awakening. Interwoven with Mount's...
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"You could say I had an unconventional upbringing. At the age of four, I was sharing my bedroom with Bob Dylan, and by the time I was fifteen, I had been taken out of school to go traveling and was smoking joints with my mother." Some may be shocked at the adventures mother and daughter share, but everyone will admire Niema's celebration of travel, motherhood, and life itself, as this honest and often humourous account describes how she copes with:The...
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The Girl in the Song tells the stories of 50 women who have inspired classic rock songs. Who was Emily in Pink Floyd's See Emily Play? What happened to Suzanne Verdal, immortalised in Leonard Cohen's Suzanne? Did life change for Prudence Farrow after John Lennon penned Dear Prudence? And whatever happened to 'the girl with mousy hair', an ex-girlfriend Bowie sings about in Life on Mars? This fascinating book explains how each song came about, when...
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A short selection of dark poetry.
Foreward by Lydia Schoch (blogger & Goodreads Author)"A Dark Corner of my Soul was a refreshing and well-written read, a raw and honest compilation of poetry purely written from his heart. Dare I say, very Leonard Cohen-ish!"Brigitte Lord, author of "We Live in the Shadows" "An amazing collection of literary prose which Weatherall has kept locked in a desk drawer for two decades is now a short collection of dark...
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Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadian identity has come to be understood as fragmented, amorphous, and unstable, a multifaceted and contested space only tenuously linked to traditional concepts of the nation. As Canadians, we are endlessly defining ourselves, seeking to locate our sense of self in relation to some Other. By examining how writers and performers have conceptualized and negotiated issues of personal identity...
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