Joshua Cohen (writer)
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| Joshua Cohen | |
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 Cohen at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival |
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| Born | 1980 Somers Point, New Jersey |
| Occupation | novelist, story writer |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Genres | Jewish, Literature, Speculative Fiction |
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www.joshuacohen.org |
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Joshua Aaron Cohen (born September 6, 1980 in New Jersey) is an American novelist and writer of stories.
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[edit] Novels
- Witz (2010, Dalkey Archive Press)
- A Heaven of Others (2008),[1] second edition 2010,[2]
- Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto (2007, Fugue State Press)
[edit] Story Collections
- Four New Messages (forthcoming 2012, Graywolf Press)
- Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge) (2010),[3]
- Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed (Six Gallery)
- The Quorum (2005),[4]
[edit] Stories
- Cohen maintains a geniza,[5] a repository of fictional fragment.
- Imaginary Appreciations of Myself as Hebrew Poet appeared in the Memoir Issue (2011) of Guernica Magazine.[6]
- Emission appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of The Paris Review.[7]
[edit] Essays
Essays have appeared in Bookforum, The Forward, Nextbook, Tablet Magazine, Triple Canopy (online magazine), Denver Quarterly, The Believer, Harper's, The New York Observer, The London Review of Books, N+1 online, Guernica Magazine', and elsewhere.
- Cohen, Joshua (November/December 2008). "The Kiss of Judas: The Caravaggio Painting Stolen from Odessa was a Fake". The Believer 6 (9): 61.
- Cohen wrote the introduction to Landscape in Concrete by Jakov Lind, published by Open Letter Books[8] in March 2009.
- "Thirty-Six Shades of Prussian Blue"[9] an illustrated portrait/"blueprint" of the color in Triple Canopy (online magazine).
- "An Offering to the Priests of Yiddish",[10] an article on Lamed Shapiro in the Jewish Daily Forward. (May 2007)
