Amy Gottlieb | Pleasures of Reading
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While Leonard Cohen is best known for his iconic songs, his poetry and fiction also shed light on his obsessions and influences. In this workshop, we’ll unpack selected song lyrics, poems, and prose, exploring how this beloved songwriter transcended boundaries of genre to deepen his artistic practice over a lifetime. We’ll work from a handout with lyrics, poems, and novel excerpts, inviting a discussion of how Cohen’s work in all these genres shaped his most iconic songs.
Amy Gottlieb’s debut novel, The Beautiful Possible, was a finalist for the Ribalow Prize, Wallant Award, and National Jewish Book Award. Her fiction and poetry have been published in On Being, Lilith, Ilanot Review, Paper Brigade, and Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, among others. She has given presentations on fiction writing at the Canberra Writers Festival, Sydney Jewish Writers Festival, AWP, New York Public Library, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City, where she teaches fiction workshops and works with individual writers on book projects.
