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Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen by Ira B. Nadel

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I am finally getting around to reading this biography which I was asked to review when it first came out in 1996. At the time I was distracted by several factual errors that jumped out at me when I started reading it -- and which caused me to doubt the value of the whole book. I felt it was a staid rehashing of th Read more of this blog post »

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