When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she’d first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their most recent recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the creative process.In Joni Mitche...

Does one honor one’s country or one’s heart? Malka Marom explores this classic dilemma in her stunningly powerful first novel, an extraordinary tale of people caught up in a violent and seemingly endless historical conflict, compelled by love and grief to transcend it.Sulha tells the story of Leora, who, twenty years after her husband was killed in the Sinai War, is empowered by law to decide whether or not to allow her only son to serve high-risk duty as his father did. As Abraham...

Era la ragazzina bionda che cantava di Woodstock e dei figli dei fiori, incantando le folle con la sua chitarra e la sua voce angelica. Nel 1971, con il folk romantico e malinconico di Blue, conquistò il cuore di una generazione, prima di avvicinarsi al jazz e di stupire tutti con una conversione alla musica di ricerca più sofisticata. In anni recenti, infine, ha scelto di tornare alla sua passione più antica, la pittura. Joni Mitchell è la protagonista di questo inedito libro intervista, ...

When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer that she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Malka completed their last recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the creative process.In Joni Mitchell...

Malka Marom will tell you that art saved her life. As a child, she craved stories and songs more than sustenance, and it’s no surprise, perhaps, that they ended up being the central thread of her unusual, often amazing life.In the ’60s, with her singing partner, Joso Spralja, another immigrant to Canada, Malka formed a singing duo that made world music a domestic hit, and though they rarely sang in English, they eventually had one of the bestselling records of the era and a CBC TV ...

Mehrere Interviews hat die Sängerin und Journalistin Malka Marom zwischen 1973 und 2012 mit Joni Mitchell geführt. Das Vertrauen zwischen den beiden Frauen ist groß, und so geht es in diesem Buch um alles: um Jonis Kindheit in Kanada, ihre frühe Polioerkrankung, ihre Mutter, der sie es nie recht machen konnte, ihre Leidenschaft für die Malerei. Unnachahmlich ehrlich erzählt Mitchell von ihrer frühen Mutterschaft - das Kind musste sie zur Adoption freigeben -, ihren Lieben, ob zu James Tayl...

Malka Marom will tell you that art saved her life. As a child, she craved stories and songs more than sustenance, and it's no surprise, perhaps, that they ended up being the central thread of her unusual, often amazing life.In the '60s, with her singing partner, Joso Spralja, another immigrant to Canada, Malka formed a singing duo that made world music a domestic hit, and though they rarely sang in English, they eventually had one of the bestselling records of the era and a CBC TV ...