Attention: Dispatches from the Land of Distraction - Softcover

Cohen, Joshua

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910695742 ISBN 13: 9781910695746

Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

A wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and rule-bending selection of non-fiction from Joshua Cohen, a major American writer (New York Times), Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction is a powerful and fresh work of social criticism, examining the ways we can reclaim the power of attention in an age of constant distraction. A fully realized work created from a selection of previously published and new essays, memoir, criticism, letters and diaries, Joshua Cohens first collection of essays covers an extraordinary array of topics: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, and psychology, on subjects ranging from Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, animals in literature, Gustav Mahler, Aretha Franklin, Edward Snowden, Gordon Lish, the closing of the Ringling Bros. circus, Google, Thomas Pynchon, and English-language publishing in Paris. In thirty essays and forty short interludes, Cohen directs his sharp gaze out upon the world, exhibiting his deep erudition and ability to draw connections between seemingly unlike things, showing us how to look at a world overflowing with information without becoming daunted. In each piece, Cohen projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his, and a voice as witty, powerful, funny, and distinct as any in American letters.

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Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; the short fiction collection Four New Messages, and the non-fiction collection Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Called ‘a major American writer’ by the New York Times, ‘maybe America’s greatest living writer’ by the Washington Post, and ‘an extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today’ by the New Yorker, Cohen was awarded Israel’s 2013 Matanel Prize for Jewish Writers, and in 2017 was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. In 2022, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Netanyahus. He lives in New York City.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1910695742
• ISBN 13: 9781910695746
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
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