Leonard Cohen, 1934-2016
To close out what has been a difficult, unprecedented, sometimes other-worldly week here in the United States, we learned yesterday that the legendary singer/songwriter/poet/novelist Leonard Cohen died at the age of 82.
Cohen’s story is long and fascinating, and I encourage you to read David Remnick’s profile for the New Yorker from last month. There is one story in particular that is too good not to share. In 2004, Cohen discovered that his business manager of seventeen years Kelley Lynch had emptied out all of …