Eric Lerner: 5 books

A memoir of the author's decades-long friendship and spiritual journey with the late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, leaving behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner....

A mesmerizing challenge to orthodox cosmology with powerful implications not only for cosmology itself but also for our notions of time, God, and human nature -- with a new Preface addressing the latest developments in the field. Far-ranging and provocative, The Big Bang Never Happened is more...

The novel published in 2008 as Pinkertons Secret was a prosaic, grotesque mash-up of this Original Manuscript. The “real” Allan Pinkerton once existed, but not in these pages. At three in the morning, the writer heard the voice of a man trying to make sense of his life.

There are lines you dont cross. Thats how you live your life. You keep looking down to check the lines and make sure no matter how nuts things get, youre on the right side of the line. Jane believed that. She really did. But in the face of the plaintive, seductive importunings of the men her life: her...

History effortlessly convinces us, but Fiction has to work so much harder to accomplish the suspension of disbelief: cajoling, arguing, pleading, losing all dignity and shamelessly seducing. If all else fails, Fiction will even break into a soft-shoe shuffle or a Dance of the Seven Veils. Try, if you must, to withstand the wiles of Livia Augusta, the Emperors Wife.