A Heaven of Others

About the Author

Joshua Cohen is the author of five other books, the story collections Bridge & Tunnel (& Tunnel & Bridge); Aleph-Bet: An Alphabet for the Perplexed (with artist Michael Hafftka); and The Quorum; and the novels Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; and Witz, an 800-page telling of the life of the last Jew. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, Triple Canopy, Tablet Magazine, The Forward, The Believer, N+1, and in the anthology, 30 Under 30: Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers (Starcherone, 2011), as well as in many other venues. He was born in southern New Jersey in 1980, and currently lives in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.