Joshua Cohen Confronts the New National Deficit in “ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction”
Jessi Jezewska Stevens declares Joshua Cohen’s “ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction” “brilliant, frustrating, searching, and sad.”
Jessi Jezewska Stevens’s criticism and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Harper’s Online, the Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB Magazine, Guernica, and The Rumpus, and her fiction appears in the Paris Review and Tin House. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Jessi Jezewska Stevens declares Joshua Cohen’s “ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction” “brilliant, frustrating, searching, and sad.”
What would we be without the veneer of social convention: petty, destructive, deeply alone?