Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen
discreet friend innocuous movies running
I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.
classic effects health potential yield
These and other potential health effects yield a classic risk-risk trade-off.
concepts left unlike
English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.
novel outside reader
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.
adverse against aid curtail disease excellent fatty fish gets health heart increase information lost people perceives protect public risk source
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.
book formats hope house largest money numbers people published publishing represent sales speak
Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?
family
Books were in my family - books were my family.
enriched via
I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.
family immense limb shake
I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me.
time
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
fit
Most novelists are narcissistic egomaniacs who would probably fit somewhere on the CEO spectrum.
cannot interested manner puns understood
Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.
german russian
I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.