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With Attention, Joshua Cohen returns with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters―many appearing here for the first time―Cohen covers the full depth and breadth of modern life: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, and psychology, and subjects as diverse as Google, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, fictional animals, Gustav Mahler, Aretha Franklin, John Zorn, landscape photography, fake Caravaggios, Wikipedia, Gertrude Stein, Edward Snowden, Jonathan Franzen, Olympic women’s fencing, Atlantic City casinos, the closing of the Ringling Bros. circus, and Azerbaijan. Cohen directs his sharp gaze at home and abroad, calling upon his extraordinary erudition and unrivaled ability to draw connections between seemingly unlike things to show us how to live without fear in a world overflowing with information. At this crucial juncture in history, Attention is a guide for the perplexed―a handbook for anyone hoping to bring the wisdom of the past into the culture of the future.
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Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. He has written novels (BOOK OF NUMBERS, MOVING KINGS), short fiction (FOUR NEW MESSAGES), and non-fiction for the NEW YORK TIMES, HARPER'S, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS, n+1, and others. In 2017 he was named one of GRANTA's Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City.
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'Cohen is an extraordinary prose stylist.' - James Wood, NEW YORKER
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