Kafka is Still the Rage: A Reading and Conversation with Joshua Cohen, Vivian Gornick, Shalom Auslander, Daniel Kehlmann, and Michael Shannon / A Reading and Conversation with Joshua Cohen, Vivian Gornick, Shalom Auslander, Daniel Kehlmann, and Michael Shannon - The 92nd Street Y, New York
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Kafka is Still the Rage

A Reading and Conversation with Joshua Cohen, Vivian Gornick, Shalom Auslander, Daniel Kehlmann, and Michael Shannon
Kafka is Still the Rage

Modernist master. Arch absurdist. Gothic satirist. Jewish mystic. Who was Franz Kafka?

A century after his death, readers and fellow writers are still grappling with the gnomic, utterly absorbing work of this beguiling literary artist. From haunting stories like “The Metamorphosis” and “In the Penal Colony” to prophetic novels like The Trial and The Castle, today Kafka’s writings sound both contemporary and eternal, like dispatches extracted from the earth’s core — an influence on generations of writers across the globe, from the Surrealists to Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Joshua Cohen.

Gathering a wide-ranging group of contemporary writers profoundly marked by Kafka, Cohen leads a reading and conversation on his singular relevance — and why, 100 years after his death, we are still decoding him.

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Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels The Netanyahus, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction …

Joshua Cohen

Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. His books include the novels The Netanyahus, winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Moving Kings, Book of Numbers, Witz, A Heaven of Others, and Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto; the short-fiction collection Four New Messages, and the nonfiction collection Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction. Cohen was awarded Israel’s 2013 Matanel Prize for Jewish Writers, and in 2017 was named one of Granta’s Best Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City.

Shalom Auslander

Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey, NY. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five …

Shalom Auslander

Shalom Auslander was raised in Monsey, NY. Nominated for the Koret Award for writers under thirty-five, he has published articles in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Tablet magazine, The New Yorker, and has had stories aired on NPR’s This American Life. Auslander is the author of the short story collection Beware of God, the memoirs Foreskin’s Lament and Feh, and the novels Hope: A Tragedy and Mother for Dinner. He is the creator of Showtime’s Happyish. He lives in Los Angeles.

Daniel Kehlmann

Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. His works include Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski and Fame …

Daniel Kehlmann

Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. His works include Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski and Fame, and have won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. Measuring the World was translated into more than 40 languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature. Tyll spent a year on the German bestseller lists, selling over 400,000 hardback copies.

Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations …

Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose work has received two National Book Critics Circle Award nominations and been collected in The Best American Essays 2014. Growing up in the Bronx among communists and socialists, Gornick became a legendary writer for Village Voice, chronicling the emergence of the feminist movement in the 1970s, and a respected literary critic. Her works include the memoirs Fierce Attachments — ranked the best memoir of the last fifty years by the New York Times — The Odd Woman and the City, and Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader, as well as the classic text on writing, The Situation and the Story.

Michael Shannon

Academy Award®, Golden Globe®, Emmy®, and Tony Award® nominated actor Michael Shannon continues to make his mark in entertainment …

Michael Shannon

Academy Award®, Golden Globe®, Emmy®, and Tony Award® nominated actor Michael Shannon continues to make his mark in entertainment, working with the industry’s most respected talent and treading the boards in notable theaters around the world. Earlier this year, Shannon was seen in Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders. This marks Shannon’s eighth re-team with Nichols. He last appeared in his drama, Loving. Previous collaborations with Nichols include Hank the Cowdog; Midnight Special; Take Shelter, for which he received a 2011 Film Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor; as well as the films Mud and Shotgun Stories. Last year, the Tribeca Film Festival premiered Shannon’s directorial debut, Eric LaRue. Most notably, Shannon garnered critical acclaim for his Academy Award® nominated supporting role in Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road, playing ‘John Givings,’ the psychologically troubled neighbor's son opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet and Kathy Bates. He went on to be nominated for a Golden Globe®, Screen Actors Guild®, Critics Choice®, Gotham Award® and Film Independent Spirit Award for his role in Ramin Bahrani’s timely drama 99 Homes, co-starring opposite Andrew Garfield. Additional accolades include an Academy Award® and Critics Choice® nomination in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, opposite Jake Gyllenhaal, Amy Adams and Aaron Taylor Johnson; as well as Guillermo del Toro's critically acclaimed drama, The Shape of Water, which won the 2018 Academy Award® for Best Picture. Outside of his roles on screen, Shannon maintains a strong connection to theater. Michael Shannon grew up in Lexington, Kentucky and began his professional stage career in Chicago, Illinois.

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