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Fiction. Joshua Cohen has performed in-depth investigations into mirrors and navels to return with THE QUORUM, his first collection of short fiction. A set of ten stories, a set of dreams, and a long monologue, these are all first-person rants given over by the somehow alienated individuals seeking only a sympathetic hearing, all dealing with identity and religion as well as occupied with technical ideas of reliable narration and the structure of "the mind's ear." From a review of a book about the Holocaust that's six-million blank pages to a suicide note from a young university student, from a letter home detailing an economy based on hair to a eulogy for a poem from a story narrated by three-hundred concubines to the title story about a group of people who interchange appearances, habits, proclivities and talents, THE QUORUM is a tightly-written, sensitive, and inevitably absurd take on the individual's lifelong quest to get someone, anyone, to listen.

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in New Jersey. He lived in Prague for a number of years, working as a journalist, essayist and editor for many publications, including the Prague Pill, Prague Literary Review, Czech Business Weekly, and Aufbau. His fiction has appeared in many journals -- such as Sleeping Fish, Fiction Warehouse, Zeek -- and anthologies, most recently in Text: UR - The New Book of Masks (Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2007). A recipient of first prize in The Modern Word's 2003 Short Story Contest and short-listed for the Koret Foundation's prestigious 2005 Young Writer on Jewish Themes Award, Cohen now resides in New York, where he is a regular contributor to The Forward. He is the author of A Heaven of Others and Aleph-Bet, An Alphabet for the Perplexed. Cohen was awarded a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Netanyahus.