Richard Cohen has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is She Made Me Laugh.
Blindsided
Summary
A hopeful look at coping with the ravages of serious chronic illness by an accomplished journalist, a contributing columnist for the New York Times, and former senior producer of the CBS Evening News Richard Cohen, a veteran journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for 30 years. Diagnosed with colon cancer twice in recent years, Cohen chronicles and celebrates a life brimming over with accomplishment and adversity, while struggling for emotional health. Autobiographical at its roots, reportorial, and expansive, Blindsided explores the effects of illness on raising three children and his relationship with wife Meredith Vieira (host of ABC's The View). He tackles the nature of denial and resilience and the redemptive effects of a loving family, and does so with grace, humor, and lyrical prose.
©2003 Richard Cohen (P)2003 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc.
She Made Me Laugh
Summary
Nora Ephron, one of the most famous writers, film makers, and personalities of her time is captured by her long-time and dear friend in a hilarious, blunt, raucous, and poignant recollection of their decades-long friendship.
Nora Ephron (1941 - 2012) was a phenomenal personality, journalist, essayist, novelist, playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and movie director (Sleepless in Seattle; You've Got Mail; When Harry Met Sally; Heartburn; Julie & Julia). She wrote a slew of bestsellers (I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman; I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections; Scribble, Scribble: Notes on the Media; Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women). She was celebrated by Hollywood, embraced by literary New York, and adored by legions of fans throughout the world.
Award-winning journalist Richard Cohen wrote this about his "third-person memoir": "I call this book a third-person memoir. It is about my closest friend, Nora Ephron, and the lives we lived together and how her life got to be bigger until, finally, she wrote her last work, the play, Lucky Guy, about a newspaper columnist dying of cancer while she herself was dying of cancer. I have interviewed many of her other friends - Mike Nichols, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, Arianna Huffington - but the book is not a name-dropping star turn, but an attempt to capture a remarkable woman who meant so much to so many other women."
©2016 Richard Cohen. (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
How to Write Like Tolstoy
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Behind every acclaimed work of literature is a trove of heartfelt decisions. The best authors put painstaking - sometimes obsessive - effort into each element of their stories, from plot and character development to dialogue and point of view. Veteran editor and teacher Richard Cohen draws on his vast reservoir of a lifetime's reading and his insight into what makes good prose soar. Here are Gabriel Garcia Márquez's thoughts on how to start a novel ("In the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book"); Virginia Woolf offering her definition of style ("It is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words"); and Vladimir Nabokov on the nature of fiction ("All great novels are great fairy tales"). Cohen has researched the published works and private utterances of our greatest authors to discover the elements that made their prose memorable. The result is a unique exploration of the act and art of writing that enriches our experience of reading both the classics and the best modern fiction. Evoking the marvelous, the famous, and the irreverent, he reveals the challenges that even the greatest writers faced - and shows us how they surmounted them.
©2016 Narrative Tension, Inc. (P)2020 Tantor
Gay Children, Straight Parents: A Plan for Family Healing
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Gay Children, Straight Parents is authored by sexual orientation therapist Richard Cohen, who lived a homosexual life and then came out straight! Today he has been married to his beautiful wife for 38 years and has three adult children. Over the past 30 years as a psychotherapist, Cohen has helped hundreds of parents, family members, and friends who have same-sex attracted (SSA) loved ones.
This groundbreaking book describes 12 powerful principles to create more loving and intimate relationships within the family and community. You will hear moving testimonies from parents who share their stories of restored relationships as they helped their SSA sons and daughters fulfill their heterosexual potential.
Gay Children, Straight Parents is a gift for family members and friends and for anyone who wishes to understand how to love men and women who experience either unwanted SSA or are living a gay or lesbian life. Clergy and ministry leaders will find this an invaluable resource.
©2016 PATH Press (P)2008 Richard Cohen
Healing Humanity
Summary
We all need love. Many of us are oversexed because we are undernourished. If we don’t get enough healthy touch on a daily basis, then we may do that which we don’t want to do - masturbation and porn, and/or hooking up for sex. Healthy touch helps heal the hungry body, mind, heart, and spirit. Healing Heterosexuality: Time, Touch and Talk (TTT) is a blueprint for the healing of humanity. Why do heterosexuals need to be healed? Why is there a 50 percent divorce rate? Why does research indicate that 33 to 73 percent of men and 26 to 70 percent of women are sexually unfaithful in marriage? Why are men and women getting hooked on porn, spending 4,000 dollars a second? Why are more and more men being exposed for sexually abusing children, adolescents, and/or adults? Why does the USA, with 5 percent of the world's population, consume 80 percent of the world's opioids? Porn, affairs, and addictions are illegitimate attempts to meet legitimate needs for love. Are you looking for love? Longing to be held? Perhaps settling for sex instead? If you want to experience greater love in your life, Healing Heterosexuality: Time, Touch, and Talk will provide you with the keys to fulfill your heart's desire. TTT has solutions that will change your life for good! TTT will teach you how to heal your heart and create more loving, intimate relationships: Time: Life-changing skills for your personal healing, family healing, and community healing. Touch: Essential exercises for healthy touch to transform your life and the lives of your loved ones. Talk: Communication skills to foster greater intimacy in your personal and professional relationships.
©2019 Richard Cohen (P)2019 Richard Cohen
By the Sword
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Napoleon fenced. So did Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Grace Kelly, and President Truman, who as a schoolboy would practice fencing with Bess - his future wife - when the two of them returned home from school. Lincoln was a canny dueler. Ignatius Loyola challenged a man to a duel for denying Christ's divinity (and won). Less successful, but no less enthusiastic, was Mussolini, who would tell his wife he was "off to get spaghetti," their code to avoid alarming the children. By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting - a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing history of the world via the sword.
©2002, 2008 Narrative Tension, Inc. (P)2020 Tantor