At HTMLGIANT: Months after it came out, Kyle Minor still doesn’t think he’s read a good review of Joshua Cohen’s Witz. At Jewcy: For those of you who have always dreamed of being in a film adaptation of a Jonathan Safran Foer book, this is your big chance…considering you’re under the age of thirteen. At The Telegraph: Expectations are high for George W. Bush’s memoirs. At Galley Cat: Billy Idol gets a deal to put out his memoirs, Dancing With […]
Weekend Bites: Allen Ginsberg/Arthur Russell Record, Thomas Guinzberg, Joshua Cohen on Tao Lin,Todd Levin, and More
Arthur Russell recordings from 1977, featuring Allen Ginsberg, have been unearthed and will be released on Press Pop Gallery in October. At L Magazine: Thomas Guinzberg, 1926-2010 At Bookforum: Joshua Cohen reviews Tao Lin’s Richard Yates. At Splitsider: Todd Levin talks about his new book, Our Bodies, Our Junk. At MobyLives: The dudes putting on Brooklyn Book Festival. At Jacket Copy: George W. Bush AND Sarah Palin both have books coming out this Fall. Are you as excited as we […]
Shukert and Shteyngart Take to the Airwaves
Is there even such thing as air waves anymore (aside from the band)? If there are, Rachel Shukert and Gary Shteyngart are all over them, giving you more incentive to buy their great books. Rachel Shukert on East Village Radio Gary Shteyngart on the Tablet podcast (with Joshua Cohen)
NOON + Gigantic Want You to Party Like a Frenchie
This Wednesday, July 14th: DIANE WILLIAMS (Striker of badass editor pose) author of It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature and Editor of NOON JOSHUA COHEN (Tight Bro) author of Witz, with fiction forthcoming from Gigantic & REBECCA CURTIS author of Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money and contributor to NOON With Special Guest DJ JOHN PUGH of Free Blood (formerly of !!!) And specially priced cocktails: The Witz, 20 Grand and Stupefaction The […]
Talking to Joshua Cohen
Jews Taking Bloomsday Back
As a Jew growing up in a predominantly Irish city, I always felt a little left out on St. Patrick’s Day. Not that marching in parades and vomiting green beer is my idea of a good time, but I’ve always been a bit jealous of their Irish and their ability to party. So it made me grin a bit when I read that Tablet was deciding to take one back for the Tribe and reclaim Bloomsday with a pretty stellar […]
Is Seymour Krim the Patron Saint for the new Generation of Jewish Writers?
I’m sitting here corresponding with Mark Cohen, editor of Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim, for an interview for a Jewish website. Levi Asher hosted Mr. Cohen a few months back on Lit Kicks, then came the Joshua Cohen (no relation to Mark) review in The Forward, and this weekend Akiva Gottlieb threw in his two cents about the collection. Is Krim the great forgotten Jewish writer that’s finally getting his due?
The Best Part About the Blake Butler/Joshua Cohen Interview….
BB: What is it that pushes you into weeks of particular nonbelief? JC: Depression. Bad luck. I’m as fairweather with faith as can be. I’ve been searching for years for a word, a single word, it would be Greek or Latin, that means “religious only in hard times.” (Via HTMLGIANT) Cohen is reading tomorrow at the National Arts Club.