Joshua Cohen talking about his book The Netanyahus

Sat Oct 02 2021 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

Bookhaus | Bristol

Joshua Cohen talking about his book The Netanyahus
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Join the author and historian Tim Cole in discussion with Joshua Cohen about Cohen’s recently published The Netanyahus.

Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian—but not an historian of the Jews—is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics—“An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family” that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers.
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. He lives in New York City.
Tim Cole is Professor of Social History and Director of the Brigstow Institute at the University of Bristol. He is also the chair of the We are Bristol History Commission, set up by the mayor in the aftermath of the toppling of the Colston Statue. Tim's most recent books are Holocaust Landscapes (Bloomsbury 2016) and About Britain (Bloomsbury 2021)
Cohen has been described by James Wood as 'one of the most prodigious stylists at work in the US today', while Nicole Krauss has declared that 'nobody writing in English is more gifted'.
You can hear him at Bookhaus - Tickets £5 (include £3 off the book) https://www.bookhausbristol.com/product/the-netanyahus-joshua-cohen-event-ticket-2-october/
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