Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen to SS, 2001.
1. SS, 2001.
2. Rasky, 2001.
3. Ibid.
4. Christian Fevret, Les Inrockuptibles, August 21, 1991, reproduced in Throat Culture, 1992, trans. Sophie Miller.
5. Ibid.
6. William Ruhlmann, “The Stranger Music of Leonard Cohen,” Goldmine, February 19, 1993.
7. SS, 2001.
8. SS, 2011.
9. Chapin, 1955.
10. Fevret, 1991.
11. Archive (undated, likely late 1950s).
12. Dorman and Rawlins, 1990.
13. Pamela Andriotakis and Richard Oulahan, People, January 14, 1980.
14. Fevret, 1991.
15. Arthur Kurzweil, “A Conversation with Leonard Cohen,” Jewish Book Club, 1994.
16. Fevret, 1991.
17. Archive (undated, likely late 1950s).
Two: House of Women
Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Mort Rosengarten, David Cohen, Steve Brewer, Rona Feldman, Phil Cohen, Nancy Bacal
Books and documents: Anonymous, 25 Lessons in Hypnotism: How to Become an Expert Operator, undated, Archive. Miriam Chapin, Quebec Now, 1955, Ryverson Press. Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game, Secker & Warburg UK, 1963 (Viking U.S., 1964). Leonard Cohen, “The Juke-Box Heart: Excerpt from a Journal,” unpublished, undated, Archive. Ira B. Nadel, Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen, Bloomsbury, 1996. Mordecai Richler, Home Sweet Home: My Canadian Album, Chatto & Windus, 1984. Mordecai Richler, Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!, Penguin Books Canada, 1992. Summer camp reports, Archive. Vox Ducum, Westmount High School Yearbook, issues 1950 and 1951.
Chapter heading: SS.
1. Anonymous, 25 Lessons in Hypnotism, Archive.
2. Cohen, 1963.
3. Brian D. Johnson, Maclean’s, December 7, 1992.
4. Richler, 1992.
5. Archive.
6. Cohen to Bruce Headlam, Saturday Night, December 1997.
7. Archive.
8. Cohen, 1963.
9. Archive.
10. Federico Garcia Lorca, “Gacela of the Morning Market,” Divan Del Tamarit, 1936, published in The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca, ed. F. G. Lorca and Donald M. Allen, New Directions Publishing, 1955, 2005 edition, trans. Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili.
11. Marco Adria, Aurora, July 1990.
12. Arthur Kurzweil, “A Conversation with Leonard Cohen,” Jewish Book Club, 1994.
13. Christian Fevret, Les Inrockuptibles, August 21, 1991, reproduced in Throat Culture, 1992, trans. Sophie Miller.
14. Cohen, Prince of Asturias Award speech, October 21, 2011.
15. Fevret, 1991.
16. SS, 2011.
17. SS, 2001.
18. Ibid.
19. Cohen, Asturias Award speech.
20. Cohen, 1963.
Three: Twenty Thousand Verses
Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Mort Rosengarten, Nancy Bacal, Arnold Steinberg, David Cohen, Steve Brewer, Dean Davis, Janet Davis, Melvin Heft, Rabbi Wilfred Shuchat, Aviva Layton
Books, films, publications and documents: CIV/n, 5, 1954, and 6, 1955. The Forge, March 1955 and March 1956. Irving Layton, The Love Poems of Irving Layton: With Reverence and Delight, 1984. Leonard Cohen Archive, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Canada (“Archive”). Lian Lunson, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, Lionsgate, 2006. Hugh MacLennan, Two Solitudes, 1945. McGill University alumnus archives. McGill University Rare Books Library. Ira B. Nadel, Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen, Bloomsbury, 1996. Harry Rasky, The Song of Leonard Cohen, documentary film, 1980. Vox Ducum, Westmount High School yearbook, 1951. Ruth Wisse, “My Life Without Leonard Cohen,” Commentary, October 1995.
Chapter heading: Mort Rosengarten to SS, 2009.
1. Vox Ducum, 1951.
2. Archive.
3. Christian Fevret, Les Inrockuptibles, August 21, 1991, reproduced in Throat Culture, 1992, trans. Sophie Miller.
4. Rasky, 1980.
5. Wisse, 1995.
6. Fevret, 1991.
7. Ibid.
8. Cohen, speech given at Irving Layton’s funeral, January 2006.
9. Cohen in Lian Lunson, 2006.
10. Fevret, 1991.
11. Rasky, 1980.
12. Ibid.
Four: I Had Begun to Shout
Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Aviva Layton, Mort Rosengarten, Arnold Steinberg, Phil Cohen, Henry Zemel, David Cohen
Books, documents and publications: Leonard Cohen, A Ballet of Lepers, Archive. Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game, Secker & Warburg, 1963 (Viking U.S., 1964). Leonard Cohen, Let Us Compare Mythologies, 1956. Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth, 1961. L. S. Dorman and C. L. Rawlins, Prophet of the Heart, Omnibus, 1990. Letters, Archive. Ira B. Nadel, Various Positions, Bloomsbury, 1996. Georgianna Orsini, An Imperfect Lover: Poems and Watercolors, Cavankerry, 2002.
Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, “Rites,” in Cohen, 1956.
1. Cohen, from “For Wilf and His House,” in Cohen, 1956.
2. Dorman and Rawlins, 1990, p. 79.
3. Cited anonymously in ibid., p. 80.
4. Milton Wilson, review of Let Us Compare Mythologies, in Canadian Forum 36, March 1957.
5. Allan Donaldson, review of Let Us Compare Mythologies, Fiddlehead 30, November 1956.
6. Christian Fevret, Les Inrockuptibles, August 21, 1991, reproduced in Throat Culture, 1992, trans. Sophie Miller.
7. Let Us Compare Mythologies, McClelland & Stewart, 2006 edition.
8. SS, 2001.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. “Synergie, Jean-Luc Esse and Leonard Cohen,” radio program, France-Inter, October 1977, trans. Nick Halliwell.
13. Fevret, 1991.
14. Archive, file 5.
15. SS, 2001.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Fevret, 1991.
19. Orsini, 2004.
20. Archive, boxes 1 and 3.
21. William Ruhlmann, Goldmine, February 19, 1993.
22. Archive.
23. Gavin Martin, NME, January 1993.
24. Irving Layton, interviewed by Ian Pearson, Saturday Night, March 1993.
Five: A Man Who Speaks with a Tongue of Gold
Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Nancy Bacal, Mort Rosengarten, Steve Sanfield, George Lialios, Angelika Lialios, Marianne Ihlen
Book: Kari Hesthamar, So Long, Marianne: Ei Kjaerleikshistorie, Spartacus, 2008.
Chapter heading: Marianne Ihlen to SS, 2010.
1. Ira B. Nadel, Various Positions, Bloomsbury, 1996, p. 110.
2. Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland, ed. Sam Solecki, Key Porter Books, 1998.
3. Cohen, letter to McClelland & Stewart associate editor Claire Pratt, July 21, 1959, in Archive.
4. SS, 2001, for the article “Heroes’ Heroes,” in MOJO, March 2002.
5. SS, 2001.
6. Richard Goldstein, Village Voice, December 28, 1967, reproduced in Goldstein’s Greatest Hits: A Book Mostly About Rock ’n’ Roll, AbeBooks, 1970.
7. SS, 2011.
8. Arthur Kurzweil, “A Conversation with Leonard Cohen,” Jewish Book Club, 1994.
9. SS, 2001.
10. Cohen, letter to Layton, April 21, 1963, in Archive.
11. Cohen, Kari Hesthamar, Norwegian radio interview, 2005.
12. Cohen, letter to Marianne Ihlen, December 24, 1960.
Six: Enough of Fallen Heroes
Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Steve Sanfield, Marianne Ihlen, Aviva Layton, Nancy Bacal, Richard Vick, George Lialios, Barry Miles
Books, fi
lms and documents: Donald Brittain and Don Owen, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen, documentary film, 1965. The Canadian Encyclopedia (online). Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers, 1966. Leonard Cohen, Flowers for Hitler, 1964. Leonard Cohen, The Spice-Box of Earth, 1961. Leonard Cohen Archive, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, Canada (“Archive”). Ira B. Nadel, Various Positions, Bloomsbury, 1996.
Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen and Irving Layton, Enough of Fallen Heroes, unpublished work for TV, 1961.
1. Cohen, letter to Desmond Pacey, February 23, 1961, Archive.
2. Cohen, letter to Jack McClelland, October 12, 1960, Archive.
3. Lorca, letter to his parents, April 5, 1930, cited in Nadel, 1996.
4. Brittain and Owen, 1965.
5. Interview in Nadel, 1994.
6. Ibid.
7. Christian Fevret, Les Inrockuptibles, August 21, 1991, reproduced in Throat Culture, 1992, trans. Sophie Miller.
8. Ibid.
9. Cohen, Spice-Box of Earth, first edition, dust jacket.
10. Robert Weaver, Toronto Daily Star, June 10, 1961.
11. David Bromige, Canadian Literature, Autumn 1961.
12. Cohen, radio interview with Kari Hesthamar, 2005.
13. Cohen, letter to Layton, October 15, 1962, Archive.
14. Robin Pike, ZigZag, October 1974.
Seven: Please Find Me, I Am Almost 30
Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Erica Pomerance, Suzanne Verdal, Marianne Ihlen, Aviva Layton, Dennis Lee, Allan Showalter, Mort Rosengarten
Books and publications: Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game, Secker & Warburg, 1963 (Viking U.S., 1964). Leonard Cohen, Flowers for Hitler, 1964. Ira B. Nadel, Various Positions, Bloomsbury, 1996. Michael Ondaatje, Leonard Cohen, McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland, ed. Sam Solecki, Key Porter Books, 1998. T. F. Rigelhof, This Is Our Writing, Porcupine’s Quill, 1998.
Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, “Marita,” in Selected Poems 1956–1968.
1. Ondaatje, 1970.
2. Rigelhof, 1998.
3. Danny Fields, Soho Weekly News, December 1974.
4. Sarah Hampson, Globe and Mail, May 25, 2007.
5. Ibid.
6. Ondaatje, 1970.
7. Cohen, letter to McClelland, August 1963, Archive.
8. Cohen, quoting a 1984 conversation with Walter Yetnikoff, to SS, 2001.
9. Cohen, letter to McClelland, July 1963, Archive.
10. Cohen, letter to McClelland, March 1964, Archive.
11. Cohen, letter to McClelland, September 9, 1963, published in McClelland, 1998.
12. Cohen, letter to McClelland, September 2, 1964, published in McClelland, 1998.
13. Cohen, letter to McClelland, September 9, 1963, published in McClelland, 1998.
14. Sandra Djwa, Ubyssey, February 3, 1967.
15. Ibid.
16. Milton Wilson, Toronto Quarterly, July 1965.
17. Paul Kennedy, The Story of Suzanne, CBC TV Canada, 2006.
18. Ian Pearson, Saturday Night, March 1993.
19. Interview with Kevin Howlett, Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song, BBC Radio One, August 7, 1994.
20. Brian D. Johnson, Maclean’s, June 11, 2008.
21. Richard Goldstein, Village Voice, December 28, 1967.
22. Susan Lumsden, “Leonard Cohen Wants the Unconditional Leadership of the World,” September 12, 1970, reproduced in Michael Gnarowski, Leonard Cohen: The Artist and His Critics, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976.
23. Cohen, letter to editor at Yilin Press, China, regarding the foreword to a Chinese edition of Beautiful Losers, February 2000, Archive.
24. Ibid.
25. Cohen, letter to McClelland, March 20, 1965, Archive.
26. Lumsden, “Leonard Cohen Wants.”
27. Jon Ruddy, Maclean’s, October 1, 1966.
28. Goldstein, Village Voice.
29. Christian Fevret, Les Inrockuptibles, August 21, 1991, reproduced in Throat Culture, 1992, trans. Sophie Miller.
30. Cohen, letter to McClelland, August 1965, Archive.
Eight: A Long Time Shaving
Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Bob Fass, Jac Holzman, Marianne Ihlen, Penny Lang, Tom Maschler, Henry Zemel
Books and films: Donald Brittain and Don Owen, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen, National Film Board of Canada, 1965. Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers, 1966. Leonard Cohen, Parasites of Heaven, 1966. Kari Hesthamar, So Long, Marianne: Ei Kjaerleikshistorie, Spartacus, 2008. Jack McClelland, Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland, ed. Sam Solecki, Key Porter Books, 1998. Ira B. Nadel, Various Positions, Bloomsbury, 1996. Michael Ondaatje, Leonard Cohen, McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Harry Rasky, Song of Leonard Cohen, documentary film, 1980.
Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, in Brittain and Owen, 1965.
1. Sandra Djwa, Ubyssey, February 3, 1967.
2. Interview for CBC with Phyllis Webb, cited in Ondaatje, 1970.
3. Jack McClelland, letter to Cohen, June 1965, reprinted in McClelland, 1988.
4. Jack McClelland, letter to Cohen, May 1966, reprinted in McClelland, 1988.
5. Nicolas Walter, Times Literary Supplement, April 23, 1970.
6. Irving Layton, in Chatelaine, September 1983.
7. Barbara Amiel, Maclean’s, September 18, 1978.
8. Paul Zollo, Songwriters on Songwriting, 1992, revised edition, Da Capo, 2003.
9. Nadel, 1996.
10. Ondaatje, 1970.
11. Cohen, interview with Adrienne Clarkson, Take 30, CBC TV, 1966.
12. Robert Fulford, Toronto Daily Star, 1966.
13. Jon Ruddy, Maclean’s, October 1, 1966.
14. Interview on The John Hammond Years, BBC, September 20, 1986.
15. Leonard Cohen, The Best of Leonard Cohen liner notes, 1975.
16. Zollo, 2003.
17. Cohen, letter to Marianne Ihlen, December 4, 1966, reprinted in Hesthamar, 2008.
18. Christian Fevret, Les Inrockuptibles, August 21, 1991, reproduced in Throat Culture, 1992, trans. Sophie Miller.
19. Harry Rasky, The Song of Leonard Cohen: Portrait of a Poet, a Friendship and a Film, Souvenir Press, 2001.
20. Cohen, letter to Marianne Ihlen, December 1966, published in Hesthamar, 2008.
Nine: How to Court a Lady
Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Danny Fields, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Bob Johnston, John Simon, Jac Holzman, Aviva Layton, Thelma Blitz, Larry Cohen, Bob Fass, Marianne Ihlen, Juan Rodriguez, Joel Bernstein, Nancy Bacal, Erica Pomerance
Books, films and documents: Artist’s cards, Columbia Records Archive. Patti Smith, Just Kids, Ecco, 2010. John Hammond and Irving Townsend, On Record, Ridge Press/Penguin US & UK, 1981. Kari Hesthamar, So Long, Marianne: Ei Kjaerleikshistorie, Spartacus, 2008. Mary Martin televised interview, Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum, Country Music Hall of Fame, November 17, 2009.
Chapter title: Leonard Cohen, at Henderson Hospital Concert, UK, August 1970.
1. Leonard Cohen, Henderson Hospital concert, UK, August 1970, taped by Ian Milne.
2. Reed, interview with the author, 2005.
3. Browne, interview with the author, 2008.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. John Walsh, MOJO, September 1994.
9. Prologue to live performance of “Joan of Arc,” Paris, October 20, 1974, leonardcohen-prologues.com.
10. Ibid.
11. Prologue at Henderson Hospital concert, UK, August 1970.
12. Smith, 2010.
13. Hammond and Townsend, 1981.
14. Cohen, letter t
o Marianne Ihlen, February 23, 1967, Ihlen private collection.
15. Cohen, letter to Marianne, April 9, 1967, Ihlen private collection.
16. Ibid.
17. Cohen, letter to Marianne, April 12, 1967, Ihlen private collection.
18. John Hammond and Leonard Cohen, BBC radio interview, September 20, 1986.
19. Ibid.
20. Harry Rasky, The Song of Leonard Cohen: Portrait of a Poet, a Friendship and a Film, Souvenir Press, 2001.
21. Layton, interview with the author.
22. Robert Enright, Border Crossings 7, February 2001.
23. Mark Ellen, Word, July 2007.
24. Enright, Border Crossings, 2001.
25. Robert Fulford, This Was Expo, McMaster Libraries, 1968.
26. Leonard Cohen, liner notes to Greatest Hits/The Best of Leonard Cohen, 1975.
27. Simon Houpt, Globe and Mail, February 27, 2009.
28. Hammond and Townsend, 1981.
29. Susan Nunziata, Billboard, November 28, 1998.
Ten: The Dust of a Long Sleepless Night
Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, John Simon, Marianne Ihlen, Danny Fields, Steve Sanfield, David Lindley, Chris Darrow, Chester Crill
Books, documents and films: Artist’s cards, Columbia Records Archive. Armelle Brusq, Mount Baldy, Spring ’96, documentary film, 1997. Kari Hesthamar, So Long, Marianne: Ei Kjaerleikshistorie, Spartacus, 2008.
Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong,” Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1968.
1. SS, 2001.
2. Leonard Cohen, “This is for you,” later published in Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, 1993.
3. Brusq, 1997.
4. SS, 2001.
5. Paul Grescoe, Montreal Gazette, February 10, 1968.
6. John Hammond and Leonard Cohen, BBC radio interview, September 20, 1986.
7. Prologue at concert in Antwerp, April 1988, leonardcohen-prologues.com.
8. Arthur Schmidt, Rolling Stone, September 2, 1971.
9. Donal Henahan, New York Times, January 29, 1968.
10. Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, February 17, 1968.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Jacoba Atlas, Beat, March 9, 1968.
14. William Kloman, New York Times, January 28, 1968.
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