Uli Beutter Cohen
Uli Beutter Cohen is a German-born American documentarian, living in New York City. She is the creator of Subway Book Review on Instagram.
Career
[edit]Uli Beutter Cohen's work explores connection, identity, and belonging. Over the course of her documentation for Subway Book Review, she has interviewed everyday people and prominent figures.[1]
Subway Book Review
[edit]In 2013 Beutter Cohen moved to New York City and started documenting readers on the subway.[2] She shares her photography and interviews on social media.[3] What started as an experiment on the Q Train has been called "one of the few purely good things on the internet"[4] and has been widely praised by reviewers.[5][6]
For Subway Book Review's 5-year anniversary in 2019, Beutter Cohen threw a surprise party on the G train and gave away over 400 books to commuters. Broad City's Abbi Jacobson joined the afterparty as a surprise guest.[7][8]
Activism
[edit]Beutter Cohen is a social justice advocate. She served on the advisory board of the Black Gotham Experience[9] and is currently an active member of PEN America's Literary Action Coalition[10] speaking to how the publishing industry needs to change sustainably to support multidimensional, intersectional writers and readers.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Between the Lines: Stories from the Underground by Uli Beutter Cohen. Simon & Schuster, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-982145-67-5". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
- ^ "Subway Book Review glimpses the lives of New Yorkers via the books they read". The Guardian. 5 October 2015. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
- ^ Jaakkola, Maarit (2019-07-01). "From re-viewers to me-viewers: The #Bookstagram review sphere on Instagram and the uses of the perceived platform and genre affordances". Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture. 10 (1–2): 91–110. doi:10.1386/iscc.10.1-2.91_1. S2CID 202277195.
- ^ Westenfeld, Adrienne (2019-07-12). "Subway Book Review Remains One of the Few Purely Good Things On the Internet". Esquire. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ^ Spellings, Sarah (2019-05-17). "A Surprise Book Party on the G Train". The Cut. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ^ Eldor, Karin. "How Social Media Movement Subway Book Review Changed How We Look At Books". Forbes (Interview). Retrieved 2021-06-24.
- ^ "Tell Me What You're Reading No. 22: Subway Book Review - Uli Beutter Cohen". Bookworms In The Wild. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ^ Geschwinder, Lea (2019-05-22). "Very Literary Surprise Party on the G Train". Zenalism. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ^ "Past Events". blackgotham.com. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ^ "NYC Literary Action Coalition". PEN America. 2020-10-01. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
- ^ "Rebuilding and Reinventing the Book Business Sustainably". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
