Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen
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The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.
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That has been so successful, we constantly have to have more delivery runs. We were starting to have to look at some kind of fee structure, which we didn't want to do.
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Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet.
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The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.
The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.
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The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.
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The Internet is a contest between people with the same name to be the person who dominates that online space.
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It's important to evaluate the pros and cons. Because when you do evaluate the pros and cons, if you make certain plausible assumptions about how people react, you can get some serious negative results.
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Books were in my family - books were my family.
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What qualified me to write about Israel was that I wanted to; it took no time to convince myself. The only reservation I had was about eaven: I wanted to write about the Jewish heaven but did not feel qualified because I did not and do not believe in 'it,' though I should.
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English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.
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Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
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Fish are an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, which may protect against coronary heart disease and stroke, and are thought to aid in the neurological development of unborn babies, ... If that information gets lost in how the public perceives this issue, then people may inappropriately curtail fish consumption and increase their risk for adverse health outcomes.
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Fish are an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids, which may protect against coronary heart disease and stroke, and are thought to aid in the neurological development of unborn babies, ... If that information gets lost in how the public perceives this issue, then people may inappropriately curtail fish consumption and increase their risk for adverse health outcomes.