Dave Cowen has written for The New Yorker, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Points In Case and his work has been featured in The New York Times.

In 2018, he published the Amazon Best Seller in the Political Humor and Jewish Holidays categories, THE TRUMP PASSOVER HAGGADAH. In 2019, he published a follow-up parody Haggadah, THE YADA YADA HAGGADAH, for fans of the greatest Jewish-American sitcom about nothing, which was also an Amazon Best Seller in Jewish Holidays as well as the Parody category. He's also the author of FAKE HISTORY!, which satirizes Christopher Columbus' age of exploration and today's Trumpian phase of politics and has been an Amazon Best Seller in the History Humor category.

His latest books, published in 2020, are THIS BOOK IS THE LONGEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN AND THEN PUBLISHED and WE BOUGHT A GUN.

Beginning with a humorously heroic imperative to produce a world-record-setting single sentence book, THIS BOOK IS THE LONGEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN AND THEN PUBLISHED transforms from a comedic conceptual performance into a raw collage memoir that livestreams everything the author thought about in a year: Jeff Bezos, The New Yorker, Numerology, Kanye West, embarrassment, memory, suicide, fate; the list goes on for 111,111 words. The book contributes to the long tradition of single-sentence, stream-of-consciousness literature, which goes back at least as far as Joyce and Faulkner, and appeared as recently as Lucy Ellmann's 1,030-page Ducks, Newburyport, published last year to wide acclaim. (Also, after some tedious research into Ducks, Newburyport, it does look like Cowen wrote the longest English sentence to date.) What makes Cowen's offering a standout in this tradition is its unique blending of memoir, collage, comedy, and interactivity.

At the level of memoir, THIS BOOK IS THE LONGEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN AND THEN PUBLISHED is a story of success and failure, the pathos of grief and the humor of vulnerability, lineages of mental illness and nascent spiritual healing. While the book begins with Cowen's literary quest to gain a quantifiable achievement as a professional writer, the narrative soon becomes an emotional living-record of the Kaddish year of mourning following his beloved father's death. Navigating revelations and digressions about filial piety and individualism, his specific parent and the cosmic creator, Cowen's epic odyssey leads to a place where ambition, envy, ego, and results give way to process, non-attachment, equanimity, and humility.

Cowen's stream-of-consciousness style is also accompanied by collage techniques inspired by the tactics of David Shields, Lewis Hyde, and social media memers, which not only challenges contemporary copyright law but also extols a universal muse in all originality. Like a 21st-Century Instagrammer crossed with a 19th-century commonplace book editor, Cowen posts/quotes found content throughout his yearlong writing journey: everything from personal emails, celebrity Tweets and song lyrics from his Spotify shuffle, to excerpts from Josh Wolf Shenk's study of Abraham Lincoln's mental illness and Carl Jung's scholarship on metanoia, to text authored by an AI app, to segments contributed specifically for the project by fellow writers such as Tom Comitta, Mike Heller, Dan Marshall, Leryl Joseph, Ryan DeNardo, and Kiana Fitzgerald. An index of cited content appears at the end.

Also, don't forget the comedy and interactivity! With interstitials of hilarious Shouts & Murmurs submissions, cringe-inducing Hollywood industry anecdotes, and an idiosyncratic voice of ironically self-deprecating self-aggrandizement, Cowen will charm his way into readers' hearts. He also offers readers the opportunity to add 250 of their own words to his book via writing an Amazon Verified Purchase Review. The words in every Amazon Verified Purchase Review will be inserted into the book sans punctuation and instantly republished as Print On Demand and epub KDP files. By inviting readers to continue growing the attempt at the record, Cowen also offers a communal element to the experience.

A companion piece, WE BOUGHT A GUN: An Imagined, Hoped For, Not Yet Realized, Film and Future, the screenplay that Cowen writes about in his memoir, is also being published in conjunction.

WE BOUGHT A GUN is a romantic political comedy that imagines America's gun debate as a journey a divided married couple and the nation must take to reconciliation.

When progressive husband and wife Adam and Maggie Brooks are mugged at gunpoint, their irreconcilable response causes them to question their plans to start a family together.

Combining the broad satire of Adam McKay, the relationship humor of Judd Apatow, the clever surrealism of Donald Glover, and the witty religiosity of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, WE BOUGHT A GUN is so imaginative it just might change your perspective, the country's, and the world's.

Published in conjunction with and as a companion piece to the author's memoir THIS BOOK IS THE LONGEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN AND THEN PUBLISHED, which is in part about how the author's Hollywood ambition sometimes came at the expense of his relationship with his now-deceased father, WE BOUGHT A GUN also comes out in the time of the coronavirus and COVID-19, when we as a country and as a global community must try to figure out what kind of world we want to live in after this is all over, hopefully soon.

While you are self-quarantining and social distancing, and Hollywood has ceased most physical production and delayed many film releases, enjoy and imagine this screenplay as a movie that helps us ask: what do we hope to keep the same as before and what do we hope to change?

A portion of the book's profits will be donated to gun legislation reform organizations.