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Cody, Joshua
Joshua Cody received his bachelor's degree in music composition from Northwestern University, and his master's and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. Joshua is a composer living in New York City. [sic] is his first book.

'Writing this rawly self-conscious has no business captivating you, let alone moving you. That it manages to do it anyway is a testament to Mr. Cody's talent, honesty, and singularity' Jonathan Franzen 'To open this book is to engage with a spirit at once endlessly curious, genuinely funny, fiercely intelligent, and wonderfully perverse. Reading it I kept having the uncanny sense that I was holding something alive in my hands, something with a pulse. This book is a true gift, a wild ride, and a tour-de-force performance. Welcome to the new face of memoir' Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City 'There are paragraphs of Mr. Cody's testimony so brimming with the connectedness of things - art and life, wellness and death, sex and sickness, beauty and disease, literature and love, music and mortality: all the undulant contingencies - it takes our breath away. Mighty writing and a memorable read' Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking 'From its brilliant title onwards, persuasively equates that which is with that which is diseased. Joshua Cody is sympathetic (in all senses of the word), immensely knowledgeable, and he makes illuminating connections when discussing major modernist figures such as Nietzsche, Kakfa, Klee, Pound and Eliot' David Shields, author of Reality Hunger