New novel by Eric Lerner (Leonard Cohen's old associate)

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New novel by Eric Lerner (Leonard Cohen's old associate)

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http://www.pinkertonssecret.com/
http://readingthepast.blogspot.com/2008 ... or-of.html

It's the same Eric Lerner who edited Zero, a Buddhist magazine, in late 1970s, where Leonard was contributor and contributing editor.
I have Zero, issue 3, so while trying to find other issues (LC was contributing to issue 2 and 5 also, it seems), I encountered into Eric's blog and website.
The interesting fact is that Lerner, after he stopped to publish Zero, wrote screenplays - didn't know that Mel Gibson/Goldie Hawn movie "Bird on a Wire" was his work! (So now we know where they did get title from...) Also he wrote Kiss the Sky, recent movie full of Cohen songs.

After graduating from Harvard College with a degree in Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy, Eric Lerner spent several years traveling and living in Buddhist monasteries and communities in Asia and America. He wrote a memoir about his experiences, Journey of Insight Meditation. For several years he edited Zero, a journal that presented Buddhist thinkers alongside original work by Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, and the Pulitzer Prize winning poet John Ashbery, among others. This arcane background served him well during his subsequent twenty year career as a screenwriter and producer in Hollywood. His films include Bird on a Wire, starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn; Kiss The Sky, starring William Petersen and Terrence Stamp; and Augustus, starring Peter O’Toole and Charlotte Rampling. Pinkerton’s Secret is his first novel.
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