Untold Stories of Leonard Cohen: Michael Posner

Michael Posner and Andrea Warner

Untold Stories of Leonard Cohen: Michael Posner

Michael Posner and Andrea Warner

8:00pm

Thursday, October 28, 2021

There has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen, and no biography paints that better than Canadian writer Michael Posner‘s masterful new book From This Broken Hill. The work is the result of chronicling dozens of interviews, and weaving together abundent oral histories, to reveal the Leonard Cohen who existed behind the extraordinary life of literature, music and art. In the second volume of his Untold Stories series, Posner explores Cohen’s life from 1971 through to the late 1980s. From heartbreak to career uncertainty, the book captures the unique, complex and compelling stories behind the legend during a time of turmoil. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about Cohen’s incredible life during this interview with bestselling author and biographer Michael Posner.

Interviewer: Andrea Warner

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There has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen, and no biography paints that better than Canadian writer Michael Posner‘s masterful new book From This Broken Hill. The work is the result of chronicling dozens of interviews, and weaving together abundent oral histories, to reveal the Leonard Cohen who existed behind the extraordinary life of literature, music and art. In the second volume of his Untold Stories series, Posner explores Cohen’s life from 1971 through to the late 1980s. From heartbreak to career uncertainty, the book captures the unique, complex and compelling stories behind the legend during a time of turmoil. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn more about Cohen’s incredible life during this interview with bestselling author and biographer Michael Posner.

Interviewer: Andrea Warner

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Michael Posner is an award-winning writer, playwright, and journalist, and the author or coauthor of eight previous books. These include the bestselling Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years, Vol. 1, as well as the Mordecai Richler biography The Last Honest Man, and the Anne Murray autobiography All of Me, both of which were national bestsellers. He was Washington Bureau Chief for Maclean’s magazine and also managing editor of the Financial Times of Canada. He later spent sixteen years as a senior writer with The Globe and Mail.

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Andrea Warner is a writer, critic, broadcaster, podcaster and creative consultant focusing on music, arts, pop culture and feminism. She’s the author of the best-selling book Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography and We Oughta Know: How Four Women Ruled the '90s and Changed Canadian Music. She is currently co-writing the documentary film, Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On (White Pine, 2022). Since 2015, she’s co-hosted the weekly feminist podcast, Pop This!. Andrea is a settler who was born and raised in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

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