Quote of the Day

"Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore”

- Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

Cohen wrote the novel in two eight-month spurts while living on the Greek island of Hydra in 1964 and 1965. He fasted and consumed amphetamines to focus his creativity on the novel. Beautiful Losers is his second and final novel. It was published in 1966, before he began his career as a singer-songwriter.