Nick Cohn is the well known pop-culture critic and writer, best known for having written the journalistic piece on which the blockbuster 70's disco movie "Saturday Night Fever" was based. Reading his1994 novel Need is an interesting experience - something like having an extended hallucination. The overall the effect is vivid and intense, fascinating and mostly pleasurable. Set in the midst of a heat wave in New York City, it is the story of the unravelling of 4 characters with odd and disfunctional pasts that keep intruding on the main narrative, and an apocalyptic "event" that shakes everyone's world.
Click here for an overview of Cohn's creative life, from NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/nik-cohn-fever-dream.html?pagewanted=all
Click here for an overview of Cohn's creative life, from NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/nik-cohn-fever-dream.html?pagewanted=all
