Notable Online: 5/24–5/30
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Joshua Cohen
Notable NYC: 2/9–2/15
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 11/10–11/16
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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What to Read When the World Is Ending
Books to read in this fraught political moment.
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Notable NYC: 10/6–10/12
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/20–8/26
Literary events in and around L.A. this week!
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Notable NYC: 8/11–8/17
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 4/21–4/27
Literary events and readings in and around New York City this week!
...moreNotable NYC: 7/8–7/14
Sunday 7/9: Rachel Lyon, Gordon Harber, Chanice Hughes-Greenberg, and host Madeline Stevens join Sundays at Erv’s. Erv’s, 6 p.m., free. Monday 7/10: Jami Attenberg, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Courtney Maum, Elizabeth Crane, Paul Lynch, and Chiwan Choi join the Franklin Park reading series. Franklin Park, 8 p.m., free. Madeleine Mermall, Camonghne Felix, Mia Kang, Rachel Kang, Jeffery […]
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The Occupation of America: Moving Kings by Joshua Cohen
[Moving Kings] has brilliant things to say about America and Israel, war and peace, diaspora and home.
...moreNotable NYC: 5/6–5/12
Saturday 5/6: Jennifer E. Smith presents Windfall. McNally Jackson Books, 6 p.m., free. Carmen Giménez Smith and Aldrin Valdez join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
...moreNotable NYC: 2/18–2/24
Saturday 2/18: Ryan Dobran and Wendy Letterman join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Kristen Gallagher and Ed Steck celebrate new books from Skeleton Man Press. The Glove, 6 p.m., free. Sunday 2/19: Elizabeth Hall and Melissa Buzzeo read poetry. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 6:30 p.m., free. Monday 2/20: Not My President’s Day march. Columbus […]
...moreThe Story Behind the Story
At this stoplight, you might begin to think, “I’ve been here before, there is nothing new to notice.” But it seems to me that we actually live here, and we often fail to notice what is in our own yard. For Flavorwire, Jonathon Sturgeon talks about what we talk about when we talk about books.
...moreNotable NYC: 11/7–11/13
Saturday 11/7: Diana Hamilton, Kaveh Akbar, Shira Erlichman, Jason Koo, Katy Lederer, Matt Longabucco, and Angel Nafis celebrate the launch of issue 2 of Prelude. Baby’s All Right, 3 p.m., $10. Lee Ann Brown and Kit Robinson join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Zachary C. Solomon, Naomi McDougall Jones, Spencer Everett, and […]
...moreThe Influence of the Internet
The Believer interviews Joshua Cohen, author of Book of Numbers. Cohen is currently working on his newest novel, PCKWCK. He talks to The Believer about preparing for writing and the influence of the Internet on the literary world: First of all, there’s the rate of production that the Internet demands: this gaping maw that just wants […]
...moreNotable NYC: 7/25–7/31
Saturday 7/25: New York City Poetry Festival, day 1. Governors Island, 11 a.m., free. Jeffery Berg, Amy Berkowitz, Jen Levitt, Caitie Moore, and Leila Ortiz celebrate No, Dear at NYC Poetry Festival. White Horse Stage, 2:30 p.m., free. Sunday 7/26: New York City Poetry Festival, day 2. Governors Island, 11 a.m., free. Natalie Eilbert, Joshua […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Joshua Cohen
Novelist Joshua Cohen gives an interview, digital, about his new novel, paper, but also digital, about the Internet, digital, subsuming the novel, even his novel, best on paper, Book of Numbers.
...moreNotable NYC: 6/20–6/26
Saturday 6/20: Paige Taggart, Rickey Laurentiis, Jackie Clark, Dawn Raffel, Kait Heacock, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Naomi Extra, Kashana Cauley, Mensah Demary, Ryan Sartor, Mack Gelber, Tracy O’Neill, Niina Pollari, and many others join POPSICKLE 2015, the celebration of Brooklyn’s poetry communities. Check out the full schedule here. The Living Gallery, 1 p.m., free. Jen Grow discusses […]
...moreL-IT-erature
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 […]
...moreTaking a Bath with Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen is making the rounds to promote his latest novel, Book of Numbers. A prolific book reviewer, Cohen is also already working on a fifth novel. At VICE, Thomas Morton decided to take a bath with Cohen to discuss the latest book. The two headed out to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn to talk books at Mermaid Spa: […]
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Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
J. A. Tyler reviews Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen today in Rumpus Books.
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Four New Messages, by Joshua Cohen
It’s hard to write well about the Internet. This is partly, as many have noted, because life on a screen is already mediated, so to write about these corners of twenty-first-century existence is to attempt, in some ways, a representation of a representation. But it’s also because time spent online is, for many of us […]
...moreThe Work of the Day, Which is Slaughtering
In Joshua Cohen’s hyperreal world of kitsch, the Sabbath becomes law, Auschwitz becomes Whateverwitz, and the world’s last Jew is on the run.
...moreThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #4: Kevin Lincoln in Conversation with Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen just wrote a book called Witz. Or rather, Witz was just published—its writing took nine years, and the inimitable Jewish culture with which it symbiotically exists has been gestating way longer than that. For a day, Joshua and I exchanged e-mails. He loves Saul Bellow, and he likes Philip Roth. I love Philip […]
...moreNotable New York, This Week 4/12 – 4/18
This week in New York The Future of Criticism with Lorin Stein and Maud Newton, John D’Agata and Thalia Field discuss the lyric essay, Alice Walker on activism, Salman Rushdie and Lee Bollinger discuss free speech in a globalized world, Mikael Kennedy shows his Polaroids at the Chelsea Hotel and Congress for Curious People symposium […]
...moreGuernica and Triple Canopy: Two Not to Miss
Two pieces of writing that caught my eye today were Bridget Potter’s essay “Lucky Girl” in Guernica, and Joshua Cohen’s “Thirty-Six Shades of Prussian Blue” in Triple Canopy. Potter’s startling essay relays her experience getting an illegal abortion as a nineteen-year-old in 1962 America, and the bevy of options and predicaments that came along with […]
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