Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker
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Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker
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#2How did The New Yorker get such a well timed profile?
Did they know in advance that he would win the Nobel Prize?
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#3How did The New Yorker get such a well timed profile? Did they know in advance that he would win the Nobel Prize?
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#4How did The New Yorker get such a well timed profile? Did they know in advance that he would win the Nobel Prize?
It would be impressive to know that in advance, given that actually it was Bob Dylan who won it.
(But perhaps they were tipped off that it would be a singer-songwriter, and they made the wrong guess.)
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#5How did The New Yorker get such a well timed profile? Did they know in advance that he would win the Nobel Prize?
I guess it's a promo piece because of his new album coming out next week.
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#6How did The New Yorker get such a well timed profile? Did they know in advance that he would win the Nobel Prize?
It would be impressive to know that in advance, given that actually it was Bob Dylan who won it. (But perhaps they were tipped off that it would be a singer-songwriter, and they made the wrong guess.)
Bob Dylan is mentioned a lot in the article.
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#7How did The New Yorker get such a well timed profile? Did they know in advance that he would win the Nobel Prize?
It would be impressive to know that in advance, given that actually it was Bob Dylan who won it. (But perhaps they were tipped off that it would be a singer-songwriter, and they made the wrong guess.)
As much as I love Bob Dylan, I wouldn't have been upset had Leonard Cohen been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He's written two novels, several volumes of poetry, and, of course, has made his own irreplaceable poetic contributions to American songwriting.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be impressive to know that in advance, given that actually it was Bob Dylan who won it. (But perhaps they were tipped off that it would be a singer-songwriter, and they made the wrong guess.)
As much as I love Bob Dylan, I wouldn't have been upset had Leonard Cohen been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He's written two novels, several volumes of poetry, and, of course, has made his own irreplaceable poetic contributions to American songwriting.
He would definitely deserve it. But he's Canadian so his contributions would more correctly be classified as going towards Canadian songwriting.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
As much as I love Bob Dylan, I wouldn't have been upset had Leonard Cohen been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He's written two novels, several volumes of poetry, and, of course, has made his own irreplaceable poetic contributions to American songwriting.
He would definitely deserve it. But he's Canadian so his contributions would more correctly be classified as going towards Canadian songwriting.
Haha... Valid point. I'd have to explore the intricacies of Canadian songwriting before I could confidently make the assertion, but my feeling is that Cohen's songwriting falls in line with the American tradition.
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#10How did The New Yorker get such a well timed profile? Did they know in advance that he would win the Nobel Prize?
News papers pre-emptively write obituaries for famous older people, so they have a bunch of stuff already researched and written for Cohen.