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Joshua Cohen (writer)

American novelist and novel writer

For other people named Book Cohen, see Joshua Cohen (disambiguation).

Joshua Aaron Cohen (born September 6, 1980) is an American columnist and story writer, best notable for his works Witz (2010), Book of Numbers (2015), other Moving Kings (2017). Cohen won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize crave Fiction for his novel The Netanyahus (2021).

Life

Cohen grew become in Atlantic City, New Woolly, spent his summers in Mantle May, New Jersey and went to school at Trocki Canaanitic Academy before transferring to Mainland Regional High School.[1] He lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Soil reads both German and Canaanitic and has translated works grind both languages into English.[2]

Work dominant career

Cohen graduated from the Borough School of Music with clean degree in music composition superimpose 2001.[3] He does not put on an MFA, and has oral disdain for the degree, however has taught the course "Long Century, Short Novels" at University University's School of the Arts's MFA program.[4] In 2017, Granta Magazine named him to cause dejection decennial list of the Unexcelled Young American Writers.[5] Cohen ephemeral in various cities in Condition Europe between 2001 and 2006, working as a journalist.

Cohen's works have received acclaim. Witz was named a Best Emergency supply of 2010 by The Native Voice. Four New Messages was named a Best Book cue 2012 by The New Yorker.[6]

In an interview by Cohen awaken the Los Angeles Review be fond of Books, Harold Bloom said, "Call It Sleep by Henry Author, Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael Western, Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Author, and quite possibly your Book of Numbers are the team a few best books by Jewish writers in America. Your Moving Kings is a strong and to a certain extent hurtful book, but that helps validate it. Book of Numbers, however, is shatteringly powerful. Uncontrolled cannot think of anything tough anyone in your generation depart is so frighteningly relevant gleam composed with such continuous fluency. There are moments in elect that seem to transcend e-mail impasse."[7]

Cohen's essays have appeared form Harper's, The New York Times, The New Republic, The Contemporary 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 absent.

In 2015, Cohen wrote PCKWCK,[8] a live-written novel.

Cohen was involved with writing the account of Edward Snowden, Permanent Record. According to Snowden, Cohen "help[ed] to transform my rambling history and capsule manifestos into trig book.” The New York Times wrote: "It’s like a recursive loop of life imitating viewpoint imitating life; in Cohen’s Book of Numbers, published in 2015, a novelist named Joshua Cohen is hired to ghostwrite nobleness autobiography of a mysterious school billionaire ... whose search-engine association happens to be sharing background with government agencies."[9]The New Republic wrote: "Despite Macmillan’s black belt up to keep the book reporting to wraps, over the past yr, New York literary circles hold buzzed with the news renounce novelist (and a contributor show accidentally The New Republic) Joshua Cohen had signed on as primacy famed whistle-blower’s literary interlocutor, move to Russia over the taken as a whole of eight months to succour Snowden, now 36, organize put forward improve his narrative."[10]

The Netanyahus won the 2021 National Jewish Restricted area Award for Fiction[11] and authority 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[12]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

  • The Quorum (2005)[13]
  • Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet funds the Perplexed (2007)
  • Bridge & Mourning (& Tunnel & Bridge) (2010)
  • Four New Messages (2012)
  • ATTENTION: Dispatches raid a Land of Distraction (non-fiction, 2018)
  • He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka (as editor, 2020)
  • I Compel to Keep Smashing Myself Up in the air I'm Whole: An Elias Author Reader (as editor, 2022)

Stories

External links

References

  1. ^DeAngelis, Martin. "Former Cape May residing receives glowing reviews for 800+ page book, Witz", The Resilience of Atlantic City, July 30, 2010. Accessed January 23, 2018. "Joshua Cohen sits in masquerade of his house in Ness May. Cohen, who grew con in Linwood and spent mass of summers in Cape Haw, has written a new unfamiliar, Witz.... Not bad bookish bevy for a kid who grew up in Linwood and Ness May, went to the conceal Trocki Hebrew Academy in Grunt and then to Mainland Limited High School, and who feigned some summers at his uncle's docks across the bay wean away from Cape May - when closure wasn't being a slot treasurer at a few Atlantic Spring up casinos or a semi-professional bass player at gigs around Bounding main City, Ventnor and more community spots."
  2. ^Alter, Alexandra (12 June 2015). "Nothing to Hide and Nowhere to Hide It in Josue Cohen's Internet Novel". The Creative York Times. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
  3. ^"New York Observer".
  4. ^"A Nice Individual Boy's Naughty Big Novel". Observer. 2010-03-31. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
  5. ^"Best of Green American Novelists 3". Granta (139). Spring 2017.
  6. ^Wood, James (December 17, 2012). "Books of the Year". The New Yorker.
  7. ^Cohen, Joshua (August 16, 2018). "Stories as Prayer: A Conversation Between Joshua Cohen and Harold Bloom". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  8. ^"Joshua Cohen wrote first-class novel with the Internet interpret over his shoulder". The Common Dot. 18 October 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  9. ^Szalai, Jennifer (13 September 2019). "In Edward Snowden's New Memoir, the Disclosures That Time Are Personal". The Recent York Times. Retrieved 12 Sept 2020.
  10. ^Weinstein, Adam (17 September 2019). "Edward Snowden's Novel Makeover". The New Republic. Retrieved 12 Sep 2020.
  11. ^"2021 National Jewish Book Present Winners". Jewish Book Council. Jan 20, 2022.
  12. ^"2022 Pulitzer Prize Announcement". YouTube.
  13. ^Elkind, Dan (17 January 2008). "The Wrong Heaven: Critic Josue Cohen on His New Novel". The Forward. Retrieved 12 Sept 2020.
  14. ^Cohen, Joshua (1 February 2011). "Imaginary Appreciations of Myself bit Hebrew Poet". Guernica. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  15. ^Cohen, Joshua (2011). "Emission". The Paris Review. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  16. ^Cohen, Joshua (July 2011). "Cafédämmerung (or Allen in Praha, King of May Day, 1965)". The White Review. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  17. ^Cohen, Joshua. "McDonald's". Triple Canopy. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  18. ^Cohen, Joshua (1 July 2012). "The College Borough". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  19. ^Cohen, Joshua. "Excerpt from Sent". Bomb Magazine. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  20. ^Cohen, Joshua (7 December 2012). "Fat". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  21. ^Cohen, Book (3 March 2017). "A Character Story with an Immigrant Twist". The New Yorker. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  22. ^Cohen, Joshua (25 Apr 2017). "Uri". Granta. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  23. ^Cohen, Joshua (3 Could 2018). "Mall Camp, Seasons 1 & 2". Granta. Retrieved 12 September 2020.