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Joshua Cohen

Biography

Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. He has written novels (WITZ), short fiction (FOUR NEW MESSAGES) and nonfiction for The New York Times, London Review of Books, Bookforum, The Forward and others. He is a critic for Harper’s Magazine and lives in New York City.

Joshua Cohen

Books by Joshua Cohen

Book of Numbers
by Joshua Cohen - Fiction

Joshua Cohen’s long, rambunctious novel is the story of a Google-like Internet search firm, its mysterious leader, and the mid-level novelist hired to write the leader’s memoir. In the grand tradition of postmodern novels, the mid-level writer’s name is Joshua Cohen. That’s also the name of the company leader, better known as the Principal. Like David Foster Wallace’s works, BOOK OF NUMBERS contains dense passages of encyclopedic detail --- in this case --- details about computer technology.