Box 19

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Review of Working on a New Play.

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Review of Before Stonewall.

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Review of New Jewish Voices.

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This series contains reviews of Cohen's fiction and directing work, as well as a profile of him and his work at the Jewish Repertory Theater. The specific work being reviewed in each item is detailed in the item level notes.

The Scrapbook series materials (Box 1, Box 2, Box 3) also include additional review, interview, and profile clippings.

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A version of this work was published in Porter House Review, where it is described as "an excerpt from a memoir in progress." Stories for My Grandson includes a version of this story in Chapter 4. https://porterhousereview.org/articles/golden-boys-and-girls/

Scope and Contents This series contains the majority of Cohen’s papers and reflect a prolific and creative writing life, including copious notes, manuscript drafts, and revisions that trace the outlines of his creative process. This series also includes print publications of Cohen’s work, including his award-winning collection, Before Stonewall. Cohen wrote across genres and, as a true working writer, he often adapted his work into different formats and genres—novels into...

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The Novels and Novellas subseries contains materials related to Cohen's longer fiction writing, including drafts of published and unpublished manuscripts. This subseries includes several notable versions of $250,000, Cohen's first novel--a typed draft of the novel, a marked-up copyediting pass of the book, and an uncorrected proof from G. P. Putnam's Sons (the publisher)--demonstrating some stages of the American publication process during the mid-to-late 1960s.

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This subseries contains short fiction manuscripts, as well as an honorable mention award in a short fiction contest. Versions of some of these stories are also included in Cohen's memoir, but it is not known if names were fictionalized for any of the versions.

Additional examples of Cohen's short fiction are included in the Collections and Anthologies subseries, under Shadow: Part 1 and in the Publications subseries.

Abstract

The Edward M. Cohen Papers collects the publications, manuscripts, drafts, notes, journals, and other ephemera of Edward M. Cohen (b. 1936 - d. 2023), a gay author, playwright, director, former Queens College student and Jewish New Yorker.

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The Novels and Novellas subseries contains materials related to Cohen's longer fiction writing, including drafts of published and unpublished manuscripts. This subseries includes several notable versions of $250,000, Cohen's first novel--a typed draft of the novel, a marked-up copyediting pass of the book, and an uncorrected proof from G. P. Putnam's Sons (the publisher)--demonstrating some stages of the American publication process during the mid-to-late 1960s.