Joshua Cohen (writer)

Joshua Cohen
Born (1980-09-06) September 6, 1980
Somers Point, New Jersey
Occupation Novelist, story writer
Nationality United States
Period Contemporary
Genre Jewish, Literature, Speculative Fiction
Website
www.joshuacohen.org

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
Emission 2011 Cohen, Joshua (Spring 2011). "Emission". The Paris Review. 196. Cohen, Joshua (2013). "Emission". In Henderson, Bill. The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. pp. 236–271.

Nonfiction

  • Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction (2018)

Book reviews

Date Review article Work(s) reviewed
November 2012 "New books". Reviews. Harper's Magazine. 325 (1950): 83–85. November 2012.
  • Wolfe, Tom (2012). Back to blood : a novel. New York: Little, Brown.
  • Millet, Lydia (2013). Magnificence : a novel. New York: W. W. Norton.
  • Kavan, Anna (2013). I am Lazarus. London: Peter Owen.

References

  1. ↑ 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."
  2. ↑ 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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  5. ↑ http://pckwck.com/
  6. ↑ http://forward.com/articles/12481/the-wrong-heaven-/
  7. ↑ guernicamag.com Archived 2011-02-04 at the Wayback Machine.
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