(click here for my bio)
Maxwell Neely-Cohen is a writer, technologist, and wannabe dancer based in New York City. He is the author of the novel Echo of the Boom. His nonfiction and essays have been featured in places like The New Republic, Ssense, and BOMB Magazine. From 2018-2021, he was Editor-At-Large for The Believer. His experiments with literature and technology have been acclaimed by The New York Times Magazine, Electric Literature, The Financial Times, and Google. He was most recently in residence at Pioneer Works, CultureHub, and ENGINE.
(click here for some of what I've been up to)
Books & Publishing
the html review, a little magazine for literature made for the web
Echo of the Boom (2014) bookshop.org barnes and noble amazon
Essays
Color Story: Terminal Green for Ssense
The Chromatic Trip for BOMB
The Life and Death of LOVE Park for Buzzfeed READER
NBA Twitter is Changing the Way We Watch Sports for The New Republic
A Most Curious Black Hole for Unwinnable
Brand Anorexia for Los Angeles Review of Books
Everybody's Doing It for The New Inquiry
Video Games
STREET WRITER, a tiny little video game homage to Street Fighter II starring writer friends in famous New York literary locales
CHAOS GRANTS, spontaneous micro-grants for indie game devs
-IN-RESIDENCY, helped found a residency at Babycastles
THERE CAME AN ECHO, Executive Producer for a game controlled by using your voice
Technology and Performance
LIVE CODING, performing music and visuals with code
theballet.xyz, a little website about learning ballet
PERFORMING HANNAH WEINER'S CODE POEMS
READ TO ME, a prototype space reacting to reading out loud
ELECTROLUMINESCENT DUST JACKET LAB
DRONE POETRY