Disclosure : This site contains affiliate links to products. We may receive a commission for purchases made through these links.

ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction

Rising star Joshua Cohen`s first collection of essays, a fully realized work created from a selection of previously published and new nonfiction – essays, memoir, criticism, letters, diaries – covering an extraordinary array of topics: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, and psychology, on subjects ranging from Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, animals in literature, Gustav Mahler, Aretha Franklin, Edward Snowden, Gordon Lish, the closing of the Ringling Bros. circus, Google, Thomas Pynchon, and Azerbaijan. In thirty essays and forty short `interludes`, Cohen directs his sharp gaze out upon the world, exhibiting his deep erudition and ability to draw connections between seemingly unlike things, showing us how to look at a world overflowing with information without becoming daunted. In each piece, Cohen projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his, and a voice as witty, powerful, funny, and distinct as any in American letters.

Related Products:

In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays Native: Dispatches from a Palestinian-Israeli Life: 2016 Dear Zealots: Letters from a Divided Land What to Draw and How to Draw it for Kids Dispatches from the Kabul Cafe Default ThumbnailThomas Milne`s Land Use Map of London & Environs in 1800 Land of Big Numbers The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick Default ThumbnailSpirit of Place – Letters and Essays on Travel Azerbaijan: A Political History The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus Inherent Vice Motherfocloir: Dispatches from @Theirishfor Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love and War The Land of Neverendings In a Land of Paper Gods Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present Small Wars Permitting – Dispatches from Foreign Lands Everyone Can Draw Another Now : Dispatches from an Alternative Present From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World I`m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen The Land Beyond: A Thousand Miles on Foot through the Heart of the Middle East Attention all Shipping Thomas & Friends: Thomas Helps Hiro If the War Goes On . . .: Reflections on War and Politics The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition Now We Have Your Attention: The New Politics of the People How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Edward Thomas: A Miscellany The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit The Flame Book of Longing Blood Barrios: Dispatches from the World`s Deadliest Streets Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth`s Most Vital Frontlines The End of the End of the Earth The Wasting of Borneo: Dispatches from a Vanishing World Thomas Flintham`s Book of Mazes and Puzzles Default ThumbnailAfrica: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent