{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50420076216594,"sku":"9781555976187","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17a85bc3-8923-43cc-891f-4426225e19ed.jpg?v=1729489259","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/four-new-messages-9781555976187","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}