![]() But he had storage lockers filled with notebooks and papers. He just didn’t leave stuff lying around the house. This was in 2003, five years before Leonard learned he’d lost his fortune to an embezzling manager-a calamity that lit a fire under him, forcing him back onto the road in his late 70s to perform the most successful world tours of his career.Īs it turns out, Leonard was not immune to hoarding. After emerging from years of depression, for once he was content, and in no hurry to put himself out in the world again. When I asked him why he wasn’t doing something with them, he shrugged. ![]() One evening at his home in L.A., as he was searching for something on the desktop to show me, he scrolled through a folder containing hundreds of unpublished poems and song lyrics. But he was incredibly fond of his big-screen Mac. At the time, I put it down to his regime as a Zen Buddhist monk who lived in the moment with no attachment to things. ![]() You’d never guess you were in the home of a writer. There were no bookshelves, and not a book in sight. ![]() When I used to visit Leonard Cohen, at his house in Montreal and later in Los Angeles, I was always struck by the clear floors and bare walls. ![]()
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