![]() ![]() “I grew up on the East Coast in a world where there were pretty traditional ideas about what a nice Jewish boy should do, and I’m not sure being a fiction writer was one of them,” Henkin said via Zoom from his Brooklyn home. The 57-year-old author, who has a new novel coming out June 15, said that period of his life was crucial in his development as a serious writer of fiction. He also taught Hebrew school at Congregation Beth El in Berkeley. Between 19, he worked at Tikkun magazine and was a freelance journalist and a tutor. Joshua Henkin has lived in New York for most of his life, but he spent four formative years in his mid-20s in Berkeley and San Francisco. Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. ![]()
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