Bøker av Matt Cohen

Originally published in 1972, Columbus and the Fat Lady was award-winning author Matt Cohen's first collection of satirical and surreal short stories -- now reissued in a handsome A List edition with an introduction by celebrated novelist and literary translator Wayne Grady.

Asks how the many options for distributing books and newspapers shaped the way writers wrote and readers read. Writers like Walt Whitman spoke to the imagination inspired by media transformations by calling attention to connectedness, to how literature not only moves us emotionally, but moves around in the world among people and places.