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October 5th, 2009

Beckett and the Guy from New Jersey: A Conversation About Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others

A few weeks ago, the literature blog HTMLGiant hosted a heated discussion about whether or not difficult modernist novels like James Joyce’s Ulysses might find a publisher in today’s literary marketplace. Of the hundreds of responses to the thread and its follow-ups, the one that interested me most was Justin Taylor’s assertion that modernism’s true heir was born in 1980 in southern New Jersey, lived in Brighton Beach, and was in the midst of a period of extraordinary productivity despite an absolute lack of any significant critical attention. His name was Joshua Cohen. …more

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Kyle Minor is the author of In The Devils Territory. His recent work appears in The Southern Reivew, The Gettysburg Review, Best American Mystery Stories, and Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers. He is a Visiting Writer at the University of Toledo. Justin Taylor’s first book, a story collection entitled Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever, will be published by Harper Perennial in February of 2010.

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