![]() ![]() (It is also where Henkin grew up.) In 1976, Spence, a young Columbia English professor, falls in love with one of his graduate students, a Midwestern transplant named Pru. ![]() “Morningside Heights,” Henkin’s fourth novel, is named for the Manhattan neighborhood surrounding Columbia University where the couple at the heart of the story live. “I think being away from that world, and being in the Bay Area, gave me the freedom to do something that I might not have done if I hadn’t come to the Bay Area.” “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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