Going to the Tigers

Robert Cohen is the author of Inspired Sleep, Amateur Barbarians, and The Varieties of Romantic Experience, among other works of fiction. His honors and awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He teaches at Middlebury College, and has previously taught fiction at Harvard, the Iowa Writers Workshop, the Bread Loaf Conference, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

“Rage, intelligence, laughter: they’re all here in Robert Cohen’s Going to the Tigers. Who knew that literary criticism and memoir could be this entertaining and this incisive, all at the same time? Like D. H. Lawrence—exasperated by low-voltage life, ordinary politeness, and everything else—these essays go all out, burning with infallible brilliance and wit as they approach those fearsome, death-dealing metaphorical animals, the tigers.”—Charles Baxter, University of Minnesota

• 1. The Uncertainty Principle2. Emblem, Essence3. The Piano Has Been Drinking4. Elkin5. Ain’t That Pretty at All, or Going to the Tigers6. Refer Madness7. Living, Loving, Temple-Going8. A Maker of Mirrors9. C. and Sardinia 10. Kafka’s Budget Guide to Florence11. Invisible Ink: A Mystery