Assaf Cohen is an American actor. You may have seen him in such television shows as Entourage, Supernatural, Heroes or most recently in the movie American Sniper, starring Bradley Cooper. Love Assaf Cohen on screen? Well, he’s also an audiobook narrator!
Assaf Cohen narrated the recent release by Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes. Told through the lives of three Afghans, the stunning tale of how the United States had triumph in sight in Afghanistan, and then brought the Taliban back from the dead.
He also recently finished recording Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian, an April release. When Orhan’s brilliant and eccentric grandfather, a man who built a dynasty out of making kilim rugs, is found dead, submerged in a vat of dye, Orhan inherits the decades-old business. But his grandfather’s will raises more questions than answers. Kemal has left the family estate to a stranger.
Book of Numbers opens with the enigmatic billionare founder and CEO of Tetration, the world’s most powerful tech company, being diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, upon which he hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. This tech mogul, known only as “Principal”, takes Josh deep into his own mind, and outlines the history of Tetration, which started by revolutionizing the search engine and later ventured into smartphones, computer manufacturing, and the surveillance of American citizens. Accompanying Josh on a mind-bending world tour of local Tetration offices, from Palo Alto to Dubai, Principal soon initiates Josh into the secret pretext of the autobiography project, and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication.
Joshua Cohen is the book critic for Harper’s and the author of several books, including Four New Messages and Attention! A (Short) History. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Forward, The Believer, the New York Observer, the London Review of Books, N+1, and elsewhere. In other words, he is connected. He’s a writer’s writer, that guy who other authors want to see do well.
