I'm delighted to share the finished cover for the North American edition of Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece, which will be published by Godine on April 14th. With huge thanks to Nicole Caputo for the absolutely beautiful design and for having the brilliant idea of placing Edward Lear's illustration of a … Continue reading Lifelines: North American edition
I'm delighted to say that my new book, Lifelines, was published last week, nearly twenty-five years after my wife, Julia, and I arrived in Prespa in northern Greece with the aim of radically changing our lives. All we had to go on at the time was the book about the region that had convinced us … Continue reading Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece
* * * “There is a crack in everything / that’s how the light gets in.” ~ Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" For a number of years in the 1960s Leonard Cohen lived on the Greek island of Hydra. It was there, close to the glittering sea of the Saronic Gulf, that he found the solitude and … Continue reading A Crack in Everything: Leonard Cohen and the light of Greece
Julian Hoffman 