Leonard Cohen letters to his sweetheart sold for over $800,000
Some may say love letters are priceless, others say love letters are worth $876,000. The latter was the case for singer-song writer Leonard Cohen’s letters to his sweetheart Marianne Ihlen… Read more »
Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark sees surge in sales following That Bad Thing That Happened
Leonard Cohen, yet another casualty of 2016, on his prescient and excellent 1992 album The Future, sings, “There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.” Well, twenty-four… Read more »
Bob Dylan will not be attending the Nobel ceremony, because he’s super busy right now
In a statement at once touching and vaguely threatening, the Nobel Academy announced on Wednesday that literary-laureate-to-be Bob Dylan “has decided not to come to Stockholm.” According to the release, Dylan… Read more »
I only wish Bob Dylan had won two Nobel Prizes
Last week, we covered the fact that Bob Dylan has just won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in a piece whose response to the news can be summarized by extracting one… Read more »