Attention!: A (Short) History by Joshua Cohen (PT27)

Published 2013: First Edition / Hardcover / Excellent Condition / As New / Illustrated throughout

Original red cloth with titles all round. 237 + as new very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear might be expected. (PT27)

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Rising star Joshua Cohen’s first collection of essays, a fully realized work created from a selection of previously published and new nonfiction – essays, memoir, criticism, letters, diaries – covering 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 Azerbaijan. 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.

You've paid money for this book, or you have family or friends who don't mind your borrowing or who gift books like this. You are being attentive because you're interested in what type of person this gifter thinks you are - too attentive, to them, to yourself, or too inattentive.

Review
Intelligent, lyrical, prosaic, theoretical, pragmatic, funny, serious. His best prose does everything at once.' --James Wood

Take a dash of Montaigne and add a smidgen of stimulants and you get an digressive, engaging ride of an essay... Cohen is a cockily pyrotechnic writer; his essay is a show-off, but with something to show off about. --Jenny Disky, Guardian

About the Author
Joshua Cohen was born in New Jersey in 1980. He is the author of three novels - Witz, Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto, and A Heaven of Others -- and a collection of short fiction, Four New Messages. His writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The London Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. Cohen lives in New York City. Google Books.