I'm thrilled to say that the North American edition of Lifelines: Searching for Home in the Mountains of Greece is published today. My immense thanks to Godine for bringing this beautiful edition into the world and to Nicole Caputo for the absolutely stunning cover. I love how she's centred the hand-painted lithograph of a Dalmatian … Continue reading North American publication day for Lifelines!
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 first wrote this post in May of 2025 when my new book, Lifelines, had just been published, so I thought I would update a few things now that the US edition and the UK paperback are out as well. The story, of course, remains the same. The book was released nearly twenty-five years after … 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 