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
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
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
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
- ^ "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.
