{"id":9591,"date":"2018-10-15T09:08:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T07:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2018-10-15T09:12:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T07:12:13","slug":"kw-42-2018-buchmesse_2018-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=9591","title":{"rendered":"KW-42-2018: #Buchmesse_2018 after: ein neues Buch \u00fcber Leonard Cohen erscheint am 16. Oktober 2018: Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen (Englisch) von Eric Lerner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matters of Vital Interest: A Forty-Year Friendship with Leonard Cohen<\/span> (Englisch)<\/span> Gebundenes Buch<\/span> \u2013 16. Oktober 2018<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
von Eric Lerner (Autor)<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
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A memoir of the author’s decades-long friendship and spiritual journey with the late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n

<\/b>Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, leaving behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner. Lerner, a screenwriter and novelist, first met Cohen at a Zen retreat forty years earlier. Their friendship helped guide each other through life’s myriad obstacles, a journey told from a new perspective for the first time.<\/p>\n

Funny, revealing, self-aware, and deeply moving, Matters of Vital Interest<\/i> is an insightful memoir about Lerner’s relationship with his friend, whose idiosyncratic style and dignified life was deeply informed by his spiritual practices. Lerner invites readers to step into the room with them and listen in on a lifetime’s ongoing dialogue, considerations of matters of vital interest, spiritual, mundane, and profane. In telling their story, Lerner depicts Leonard Cohen as a captivating persona, the likes of which we may never see again.<\/div>\n

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Pressestimmen<\/h3>\n

„Matters of Vital Interest<\/i> is a portrait of a decades-long friendship, and the vision of Leonard Cohen that emerges from it is much like the persona he invents in his songs–seductive, knowing, hyper-articulate, not always likable but always fascinating. More than a foil, Lerner is the singer’s partner in crime, spiritual questing, and, until Leonard Cohen’s death, sheer survival. They are brothers, and this is their story, told from the heart.“–Anthony DeCurtis<\/b>, author of Lou Reed: A Life<\/i><\/p>\n

„A remarkably intimate and insightful portrait of one of the world’s greatest songwriters–but more than that, a genuine and moving chronicle of friendship, spiritual aspiration, aging, and love.“–Alan Light<\/b>, author of The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of „Hallelujah“<\/i><\/p>\n

„An affectionate, closely observed memoir…. A sensitive portrait of a sly, charming, complicated man.“\u2015Kirkus Reviews<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

„Lerner’s tender, moving memoir reveals Cohen as a devoted friend and father, a side of him not often seen in public.“\u2015Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

„[Matters of Vital Interest<\/i>] is wonderful…There is a lot of beauty in this book, the beauty that exists between two old friends who love and understand one another.“\u2015New York Journal of Books<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

„An entertaining memoir…[and] a poignant account of a friendship and the last days of a remarkable life.“\u2015Booklist<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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A memoir of the author’s decades-long friendship and spiritual bromance with late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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