Pete, the Photographer & Other Impressions
Marvin Cohen
June 5, 2025
ISBN 9798218678715 / Paperback / 324 pages / $22.99

In Pete, the Photographer, Marvin Cohen channels the spirit of Henri Michaux's hallucinatory journeys into an odyssey of imagination. The half-blind Pete wanders from birth through his exile among shifting landscapes, battling sentient towers and the sea armed only with his trusty camera.

The collection expands Cohen's idiosyncratic wit and wonder: a perpetual-motion basketball player defies time, a living statue courts celebrity, an intergalactic cabbie dreams of cosmic fares, and an angelic mobster schemes his way through heaven. In a final dialogue, "the whole nine yards" becomes the terrain—an exuberant attempt to "discourse on everything."