Joshua Henkin http://www.joshuahenkin.com/ en Copyright 2010 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:58:59 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Matrimony Reading Group Guide (PDF) ]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/readinggroups/download_matrimony_reading_gro.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/readinggroups/download_matrimony_reading_gro.shtml Reading Groups Mon, 25 Sep 2017 19:58:59 -0500 Expanded Books Interview ]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/video/expanded_books_interview_1.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/video/expanded_books_interview_1.shtml Video Tue, 01 Aug 2017 22:59:23 -0500 Contests GENERAL CONTEST: Sign up on my mailing list below and be eligible to receive one of five free signed copies of Matrimony. LIBRARIANS CONTEST: If you are a librarian, email me with your name, library, and library address and be eligible to have your library receive one of five free signed copies of Matrimony. READING GROUPS CONTEST: Sign up on my reading groups form and be eligible to receive free copies of Matrimony for your reading group as well as a world-famous Junior's Cheesecake from Brooklyn delivered to your group on the day of the discussion.]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/extras/contest.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/extras/contest.shtml Contests Sat, 29 Jul 2017 13:17:18 -0500 NOTE TO READING GROUPS I would be delighted to join your reading group discussion, either in person, if you are in driving distance from New York, New Jersey, or Philadelphia, or by phone. If you are interested in having me participate in your reading group, please fill out the form below. http://www.joshuahenkin.com/readinggroups/note_to_reading_groups.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/readinggroups/note_to_reading_groups.shtml Reading Groups Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:36:45 -0500 Praise for Matrimony a beautiful book. Here's to its brilliant future." --Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of The Hours.]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/matrimony/praise_for_matrimony.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/matrimony/praise_for_matrimony.shtml Matrimony Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:50:48 -0500 Praise from Independent Booksellers Matrimony, tackles the complexities of love in all its myriad combinations and possibilities. The abiding love between Mia, a Canadian Jew, and Julian, wealthy New York Wasp is the core around which Henkin creates an utterly believable, richly populated web of family and friends, and all the inherent joys, sorrows and stupid mistakes that humans make in their never-ending quest to get it right. Matrimony is a pleasure all around; wonderfully written, deeply insightful and entertaining." --Cathy Langer, The Tattered Cover, Denver, CO ]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/matrimony/independent_booksellers.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/matrimony/independent_booksellers.shtml Matrimony Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:48:45 -0500 Excerpt from Matrimony Julian saw her again, this time in the laundry room. He hoped she didn't notice that next to him, clearly in his possession, was a package of fabric softener. He had a book of stories by Ernest Hemingway, and he placed the book on top of the fabric softener, to balance the picture out. Mia from Montreal sorted her clothes at her feet. There was a colors pile and a whites pile, and Julian thrust his face into his book so she wouldn't think he was staring at her laundry. Periodically, though, he glanced at Mia herself, who was even more beautiful than he remembered. She was wearing blue jeans and a gray V-neck T-shirt, and her hair was up in a bun. http://www.joshuahenkin.com/matrimony/excerpt.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/matrimony/excerpt.shtml Matrimony Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:44:02 -0500 Swimming Across the Hudson Swimming Across the Hudson (Putnam, 1997). ----- There's a story I was told when I was a child. My parents had friends who lived in Kansas. Their name was Millstein and I pictured them clearly, swarthy and slow-afoot in the cornfield sun, a Jewish family camped in the heartland.]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/extras/swimming_across_the_hudson.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/extras/swimming_across_the_hudson.shtml Contests Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:12:21 -0500 Personal Bio My parents grew up in New York City, my mother the daughter of a hat manufacturer, my father the son of a famous Orthodox rabbi who lived in the U.S. for fifty years and never learned any English. My mother: a secular Jew who went to Bryn Mawr College and Yale Law School. My father: a law professor at Columbia who attended Yeshiva University and fought in World War II and who has remained religiously observant. I am the product of these varied backgrounds, and of this happy marriage. http://www.joshuahenkin.com/author/bio.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/author/bio.shtml Author Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:13:57 -0500 Interview Matrimony, teaching writing, and the writing life. ]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/author/interview.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/author/interview.shtml Author Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:04:28 -0500 Contact Joshua email ]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/author/contact_joshua.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/author/contact_joshua.shtml Author Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:59:59 -0500 Reading Group Contact Form
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]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/readinggroups/reading_group_contact_form.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/readinggroups/reading_group_contact_form.shtml Reading Groups Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:40:24 -0500 Praise for Swimming Across the Hudson "Mr. Henkin is such a deft and fluid writer. His clear, evocative prose allows small moments to build to surprisingly potent emotional payoffs . . . You finish Swimming across the Hudson feeling grateful for Mr. Henkin's poise and seriousness of purpose. . . . His lesson, at the close of this admirable novel, is that family and politics can indeed be pried apart--but only at tremendous cost." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review ]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/matrimony/praise_for_swimming_across_the.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/matrimony/praise_for_swimming_across_the.shtml Matrimony Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:45:06 -0500 MATRIMONY: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR "In the tradition of John Cheever and Richard Yates, a devastating novel about love, hope, delusion, and the intricate ways in which time's passage raises us up even as it grinds us down. It's a beautiful book. Here's to its brilliant future." --Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of The Hours "Truly an up-all-night Read." --Adriana Leshko, Washington Post "Mr. Henkin writes with a winningly anachronistic absence of showiness.... This is just a lifelike, likable book populated by three-dimensional characters who make themselves very much at home on the page." --Janet Maslin, New York Times "Beguiling ... [Henkin writes] effortless scenes that float between past and present.... [He creates] an almost personal nostalgia for these characters." --Jennifer Egan, New York Times Book Review]]> http://www.joshuahenkin.com/cat-13/home/home_page_welcome_message_is.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/cat-13/home/home_page_welcome_message_is.shtml Sat, 08 Jul 2017 19:18:09 -0500 Description of Matrimony It is 1987, and Julian Wainwright, aspiring writer and Waspy son of New York City old money, meets beautiful, Jewish Mia Mendelsohn in the laundry room at Graymont College. So begins a love affair that, spurred on by family tragedy, will take Julian and Mia across the country and back, through several college towns, spanning twenty years. http://www.joshuahenkin.com/cat-13/home/description_of_matrimony.shtml http://www.joshuahenkin.com/cat-13/home/description_of_matrimony.shtml Wed, 31 May 2017 13:14:49 -0500