Joshua Cohen (writer)

Joshua Cohen
Cohen at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	1980 Somers Point, New Jersey
Occupation	novelist, story writer
Nationality	United States
Period	Contemporary
Genres	Jewish, Literature, Speculative Fiction
www.joshuacohen.org

Joshua Aaron Cohen (born September 6, 1980 in New Jersey) is an American novelist and writer of stories.

Contents 1 Novels 2 Story Collections 3 Stories 4 Essays 5 Selected Reviews 6 References 7 External links

Novels

• Witz (2010, Dalkey Archive Press)
• A Heaven of Others (2008),^[1] second edition 2010,^[2]
• Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto (2007, Fugue State Press)

Story Collections

• Four New Messages (forthcoming 2012, Graywolf Press)
• Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge) (2010),^[3]
• Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed (Six Gallery)
• The Quorum (2005),^[4]

Stories

• Cohen maintains a geniza,^[5] a repository of fictional fragment.
• Imaginary Appreciations of Myself as Hebrew Poet appeared in the Memoir Issue (2011) of Guernica Magazine.^[6]
• Emission appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of The Paris Review.^[7]

Essays

Essays have appeared in Bookforum, The Forward, Nextbook, Tablet Magazine, Triple Canopy (online magazine), Denver Quarterly, The Believer, Harper's, The New York Observer, The London Review of Books, N+1 online, Guernica Magazine', and elsewhere.

• Cohen, Joshua (November/December 2008). "The Kiss of Judas: The Caravaggio Painting Stolen from Odessa was a Fake". The Believer 6 (9): 61. 
• Cohen wrote the introduction to Landscape in Concrete by Jakov Lind, published by Open Letter Books^[8] in March 2009.
• "Thirty-Six Shades of Prussian Blue"^[9] an illustrated portrait/"blueprint" of the color in Triple Canopy (online magazine).
• "An Offering to the Priests of Yiddish",^[10] an article on Lamed Shapiro in the Jewish Daily Forward. (May 2007)

Selected Reviews

• The New York Times
• Time Out New York
• Barnes & Noble Review
• New Haven Review
• The Nation

References

External links

• Official website

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Name	Cohen, Joshua
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Date of birth	September 6, 1980
Place of birth	Somers Point, New Jersey
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