{"product_id":"four-new-messages-9781555976187","title":"Four New Messages","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA quartet of audacious fictions that capture the pathos and absurdity of life in the age of the internet, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Netanyahus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e*A\u003c\/i\u003e New York Times Book\u003ci\u003e Review Editors' Choice*\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e* \u003c\/i\u003eOne of Flavorwire's \"50 Books That Define the Past Five Years in Literature\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA spectacularly talented young writer has returned from the present with \u003ci\u003eFour New Messages\u003c\/i\u003e, urgent and visionary dispatches that seek to save art, sex, and even alienation from corporatism and technology run rampant. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Emission,\" a hapless drug dealer in Princeton is humiliated when a cruel co-ed exposes him exposing himself on a blog gone viral. \"McDonald's\" tells of a frustrated pharmaceutical copywriter whose imaginative flights fail to bring solace because of a certain word he cannot put down on paper. In \"The College Borough\" a father visiting NYU with his daughter remembers a former writing teacher, a New Yorker exiled to the Midwest who refuses to read his students' stories, asking them instead to build a replica of the Flatiron Building. \"Sent\" begins mythically in the woods of Russia, but in a few virtuosic pages plunges into the present, where an aspiring journalist finds himself in a village that shelters all the women who've starred in all the internet porn he's ever enjoyed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHighbrow and low-down, these four intensely felt stories explain what happens when the virtual begins to colonize the real -- they harness the torrential power and verbal dexterity that have established Cohen as one of America's most brilliant younger writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-4157987\"\u003eJoshua Cohen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.04w x 0.71d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555976187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1555976182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1980 in New Jersey. He is the author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eA Heaven of Others\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWitz\u003c\/i\u003e. His nonfiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44523475861741,"sku":"9781555976187","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_eb4eef30-9f60-4863-8996-d865dfe996f9.jpg?v=1701319760","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/four-new-messages-9781555976187","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}