Joshua Cohen - Biography

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

Novels

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

Story Collections

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

Stories

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

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 wrote the introduction to Landscape in Concrete by Jakov Lind, published by Open Letter Books in March 2009.
• "Thirty-Six Shades of Prussian Blue" an illustrated portrait/"blueprint" of the color in Triple Canopy (online magazine).
• "An Offering to the Priests of Yiddish", 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

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