Conversations and Versifications
Marvin Cohen
Edited by Colin Myers and Maggie Beale
January 4, 2021
ISBN 9780578812632 / Paperback / 326 pages / $16.99

Across decades, Marvin Cohen continued to test and expand the limits of fictional form, assembling disparate materials through wit, compression, and associative logic. The result is a body of work that remains stubbornly resistant to categorization. This volume extends that corpus, drawing from Cohen's long-unopened shoebox of unpublished typescripts, primarily written in the 1970s and 1980s, along with dialogues, monologues, sketches, and verse drawn from his more recent emails to friends, where informal correspondence again becomes a site of formal experiment.