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Joshua Cohen Joshua Cohen is the author of Witz, The Heaven of Others, The Quorum, Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, among other titles. Articles Books Reviews Interviews Video 30 Days, 30 Authors: Joshua Cohen Celebrate Jewish Book Month with #30days30authors! In honor of the 90th anniversary of Fanny Goldstein’s tribute to Jewish books in the West End’s branch of the Boston… Joshua Cohen November 21, 2015 Essay The Doomed Generation Joshua Cohen’s most recent novel, Book of Numbers, will be published this week by Random House. He is blogging here today for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe… Joshua Cohen June 8, 2015 Interview Self-Surveillance In this week’s installment of the Visiting Scribe, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchanged ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of… Joshua Cohen, Justin Taylor August 10, 2012 Interview Quality Grumbling In this installment of the Visiting Scribe, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchange ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the… Joshua Cohen, Justin Taylor August 8, 2012 Interview Promowork: A Necessary Evil In this installment of the Visiting Scribe, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchange ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the… Joshua Cohen, Justin Taylor August 6, 2012 Essay A Parable for Writing Earlier this week, Joshua Cohen told us how to write a book like Coney Island and about the biggest cemetery in the world. His new novel, Witz, is… Joshua Cohen June 4, 2010 Essay The Biggest Cemetery in the World Yesterday, Joshua Cohen told us how to write a book like Coney Island. His new novel, Witz, is now available.This second blogpost is about two experiences… Joshua Cohen June 2, 2010 Essay Writing a Book Like Coney Island… Joshua Cohen’s most recent novel, Witz, is now available. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning‘s Visiting… Joshua Cohen June 1, 2010 Fiction Moving Kings: A Novel Joshua Cohen Fiction Book of Numbers: A Novel Joshua Cohen Fiction Four New Messages Joshua Cohen Fiction A Heaven of Others Joshua Cohen Fiction Witz Joshua Cohen Fiction The Quorum Joshua Cohen Nonfiction Ponary Diary, July 1941-November 1943: A Bystander’s Account of a Mass Murder Kazimierz Sakowicz, Yitzhak Arad, ed. Poetry Drunk From the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margoloin Anna Margolin, Shirley Kumove, trans. Poetry Selected Poetry and Drama Lea Goldberg; Rachel Tzvia Back, T. Carmi, trans. Fiction The Last Jew Yoram Kaniuk; Barbara Harshav, trans. Interview Ten Questions for Joshua Cohen In its review of Four New Messages the New York Times said of Joshua Cohen, “he’ll make you want to be an angel investor in his stuff. What’s a book but… Bob Goldfarb August 29, 2012 News Stray Questions for…Joshua Cohen Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJoshua Cohen at The Candlestick Readings in BrooklynJoshua Cohen (Witz) on The New York Times Paper Cuts Blog, where he… JBC Staff May 14, 2010
Video 30 Days, 30 Authors: Joshua Cohen Celebrate Jewish Book Month with #30days30authors! In honor of the 90th anniversary of Fanny Goldstein’s tribute to Jewish books in the West End’s branch of the Boston… Joshua Cohen November 21, 2015
Essay The Doomed Generation Joshua Cohen’s most recent novel, Book of Numbers, will be published this week by Random House. He is blogging here today for Jewish Book Council’s Visiting Scribe… Joshua Cohen June 8, 2015
Interview Self-Surveillance In this week’s installment of the Visiting Scribe, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchanged ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of… Joshua Cohen, Justin Taylor August 10, 2012
Interview Quality Grumbling In this installment of the Visiting Scribe, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchange ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the… Joshua Cohen, Justin Taylor August 8, 2012
Interview Promowork: A Necessary Evil In this installment of the Visiting Scribe, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchange ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the… Joshua Cohen, Justin Taylor August 6, 2012
Essay A Parable for Writing Earlier this week, Joshua Cohen told us how to write a book like Coney Island and about the biggest cemetery in the world. His new novel, Witz, is… Joshua Cohen June 4, 2010
Essay The Biggest Cemetery in the World Yesterday, Joshua Cohen told us how to write a book like Coney Island. His new novel, Witz, is now available.This second blogpost is about two experiences… Joshua Cohen June 2, 2010
Essay Writing a Book Like Coney Island… Joshua Cohen’s most recent novel, Witz, is now available. He will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning‘s Visiting… Joshua Cohen June 1, 2010
Nonfiction Ponary Diary, July 1941-November 1943: A Bystander’s Account of a Mass Murder Kazimierz Sakowicz, Yitzhak Arad, ed.
Poetry Drunk From the Bitter Truth: The Poems of Anna Margoloin Anna Margolin, Shirley Kumove, trans.
Interview Ten Questions for Joshua Cohen In its review of Four New Messages the New York Times said of Joshua Cohen, “he’ll make you want to be an angel investor in his stuff. What’s a book but… Bob Goldfarb August 29, 2012
News Stray Questions for…Joshua Cohen Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterJoshua Cohen at The Candlestick Readings in BrooklynJoshua Cohen (Witz) on The New York Times Paper Cuts Blog, where he… JBC Staff May 14, 2010