Writing Jewish: A Discussion with Nicole Krauss and Joshua Cohen
Part of 91快播鈥檚 Opening Season
Jews have always been writers of books鈥攆rom books for Jews with self-consciously Jewish content to books with no obvious Jewish consciousness directed toward the general reading public. But there are also authors who create worlds filled with Jews (and others) who embody human experiences with a Jewish twist for readers of all kinds. Two of the most outstanding such contemporary writers areJoshua Cohen听补苍诲听Nicole Krauss, who joined 91快播 Professor and LibrarianDavid Kraemerto discuss what it means to 鈥渨rite Jewish鈥� in today鈥檚 world.
ABOUT JOSHUA COHEN
Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels The Netanyahus, 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 nonfiction collection Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Called 鈥渁 major American writer鈥� by the New York Times and 鈥渁n extraordinary prose stylist, surely one of the most prodigious at work in American fiction today鈥� by the New Yorker, Cohen was awarded Israel鈥檚 2013 Matanel Prize for Jewish Writers, and in 2017 was named one of Granta鈥檚 Best Young American Novelists. In 2022, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction for The Netanyahus.
ABOUT NICOLE KRAUSS
Nicole Krauss is the author of the international bestsellers Forest Dark; Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize; and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France鈥檚 Prix du Meilleur Livre 脡tranger. To Be a Man, her first collection of short stories, was published in November 2020 and is shortlisted for the Wingate Prize.
