Writings & Interviews
Sample Articles and Essays
From the New York Times.
From the New York Times.
An article about substitute musicians on Broadway, in the New York Times.
An essay about divorce and anger, in Lion's Roar.
An article for Gourmet.com.
An article about con artists who sold the Brooklyn Bridge, in the New York Times.
An essay in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.
An essay about how give up grievances that cause stress, from Lion's Roar.
Profiles of three people who work on New York's waterways, in the @Work column of the New York Post.
An article about people who have to work on their feet, in the @Work column of the New York Post.
An article about a well-known mystery author who writes haiku as a hobby, in the New York Times.
How IKEA filled in a historic ship graving dock, in the New York Times.
Interviews and Author Profiles
"Red Hook: A Mystery Writer's Guide to the Bricks and Bodies of the Neighborhood,"
On National Public Radio, July 28, 2009
By Robert Smith
https://www.npr.org/2009/07/28/131009145/red-hook-a-mystery-writers-guide-to-the-bricks-and-the-bodies-of-the-neighborhoo
"One Writer's Brooklyn: Chronicles of Crime, Boombox Abuse, and Divorce"
New York Times, Wednesday, February 6, 2008
By Michael Wilson
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/books/06cohen.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=login
"Brooklyn as Melting Pot: Gabriel Cohen's Jack Leightner Novels"
Scene of the Crime, August 26, 2010
By J. Sydney Jones
https://jsydneyjones.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/brooklyn-as-melting-pot-gabriel-cohens-jack-leightner-novels/
Storms Can't Hurt the Sky interview on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show
https://www.wnyc.org/story/27235-detaching-from-divorce/
"Brooklyn, Floating Bodies Lure Crime Writer Cohen"
Profiled in a segment on National Public Radio's Morning Edition
WNYC radio, 7/28/09
https://www.npr.org/2009/07/28/106866976/brooklyn-floating-bodies-lure-crime-writer-cohen
Speaking about Mindfulness on The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC radio, 4/10/09
https://www.wnyc.org/story/30188-stop-thinking-start-living/
Included in Anthologies
Right Here With You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships
2011, Shambhala Publications
Best Buddhist Writing
2009, Shambhala Publications
Lost and Found: Stories from New York
Ed. by Thomas Beller
2009, W.W. Norton
Hard Boiled Brooklyn
Ed. by Reed Farrel Coleman,
2006, Bleak House Books