Essay · Music & Ideas Two Ways of Dying in Public Leonard Cohen and David Bowie both knew they were dying when they made their final albums. Both kept the knowledge largely to themselves. Both produced, from that knowledge, work of extraordinary quality that addressed mortality directly and without evasion. And there the similarity endsContinue reading “Leonard Cohen & David Bowie”
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David Bowie: The Man Who Fell to Earth and Never Stopped Shaping It
Few artists of the 20th century lived as many lives — and left as many indelible marks — as David Bowie. Singer, songwriter, actor, painter, fashion icon, and cultural shape-shifter, Bowie was more than a musician: he was a prism through which entire generations refracted their desires, anxieties, and dreams. From Ziggy Stardust to theContinue reading “David Bowie: The Man Who Fell to Earth and Never Stopped Shaping It”
My World of Interiors 