Joshua Cohen (writer)
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Born | Somers Point, New Jersey | September 6, 1980
Occupation | Novelist, story writer |
Nationality | United States |
Period | Contemporary |
Genre | Jewish, Literature, Speculative Fiction |
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Joshua Aaron Cohen (born September 6, 1980) is an American novelist and story writer, best known for his works Witz (2010) and Book of Numbers (2015).
Life
Cohen grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, spent his summers in Cape May, New Jersey and went to school at Trocki Hebrew Academy.[1] He currently lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He reads both German and Hebrew and has translated works in both languages into English.[2]
Work and career
He attended the Manhattan School of Music and studied composition. Cohen does not have an MFA, and has expressed disdain for the degree. In 2017, Granta Magazine named him to its decennial list of the Best Young American Writers.[3]
Cohen's works have received acclaim. Witz was named a Best Book of 2010 by The Village Voice. Four New Messages was named a Best Book of 2012 by The New Yorker.[4] Book of Numbers was named a Best Book of 2015 by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and New York Magazine.
His essays have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Jewish Daily Forward, Nextbook, Tablet Magazine, Triple Canopy (online magazine), Denver Quarterly, The Believer, The New York Observer, The London Review of Books, N+1 online, Guernica Magazine', and elsewhere.
Cohen was the New Books critic for Harper's.
Bibliography
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Novels
- Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto (2007)
- A Heaven of Others (2008) (completed in 2004)
- Witz (2010)
- Book of Numbers (2015)
- Moving Kings (2017)
Online Only
- "PCKWCK" (2015) (The world's first live-written novel)[5]
About "PCKWCK": The Daily Dot, The Believer.
Short fiction
Collections
- The Quorum (2005) (completed in 2001)[6]
- Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed (2007)
- Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge) (2010)
- Four New Messages (2012)
- ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction, Random House, 2018, ISBN 978-0399590214
Stories
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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Emission | 2011 | Cohen, Joshua (Spring 2011). "Emission". The Paris Review. 196. {{cite journal}} : Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
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Cohen, Joshua (2013). "Emission". In Henderson, Bill (ed.). The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. pp. 236–271. {{cite book}} : Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
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- Imaginary Appreciations of Myself as Hebrew Poet appeared in the Memoir Issue (2011) of Guernica Magazine.[7]
- McDonald's appeared in the May 2012 issue of Triple Canopy (online magazine).[8]
- The College Borough appeared in the July 2012 issue of Harper's.[9]
- "Fat" appeared in the December 7, 2012 edition of Tablet Magazine.[10]
Nonfiction
- Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction (2018)
Book reviews
Date | Review article | Work(s) reviewed |
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November 2012 | "New books". Reviews. Harper's Magazine. 325 (1950): 83–85. November 2012. {{cite journal}} : Cite has empty unknown parameter: |authormask= (help)
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References
- ^ DeAngelis, Martin. "Former Cape May resident receives glowing reviews for 800+ page book, Witz", The Press of Atlantic City, July 30, 2010. Accessed January 23, 2018. "Joshua Cohen sits in front of his house in Cape May. Cohen, who grew up in Linwood and spent lots of summers in Cape May, has written a new novel, Witz.... Not bad bookish company for a kid who grew up in Linwood and Cape May, went to the old Trocki Hebrew Academy in Margate and then to Mainland Regional High School, and who worked some summers at his uncle's docks across the bay from Cape May - when he wasn't being a slot cashier at a few Atlantic City casinos or a semi-professional guitar player at gigs around Ocean City, Ventnor and more local spots."
- ^ Alter, Alexandra (12 June 2015). "Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Joshua Cohen's Internet Novel". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
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- ^ http://pckwck.com/
- ^ http://forward.com/articles/12481/the-wrong-heaven-/
- ^ guernicamag.com Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
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External links
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- 1980 births
- 21st-century American novelists
- Living people
- Jewish American novelists
- People from Linwood, New Jersey
- People from Somers Point, New Jersey
- American male novelists
- Manhattan School of Music alumni
- American male short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American male writers
- Novelists from New Jersey
- Writers from Atlantic City, New Jersey