Cohen is the perfect age to write such a book, having lived approximately an even number of years on either side of the pre-Web/post-Web divide. He gets “kids these days” and partakes of their Net-fueled narcissism, owning it in a way that earlier writers never could, but he has the erudition and historical grounding of a much older man, equally at home with Python code, Yiddish poets, porn sites, and prehistorical fertility sculptures.
Over at Bookforum, Andrew Hultkrans reviews Joshua Cohen’s Book of Numbers, considering the presence of IT technology in recent, post-postmodern literature.
