Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen, born in 1980 in Somers Point, N.J., is one of the most ambitious young novelists in English. Witz is his fourth novel; he's also written four collections of stories, a book-length essay called Attention! (2013), and extensive criticism for Harper's, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Believer, The London Review of Books, and The Jewish Daily Forward. He received a 2012 Pushcart Prize and the 2013 Matanel Prize in Jewish Literature.