Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction - Couverture souple

Cohen, Joshua

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1910695742 ISBN 13 : 9781910695746

Editeur : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1910695742
• ISBN 13: 9781910695746
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 712
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible