His entry begins:
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I spent the beginning of this summer moving my family back to Brooklyn, where we generally live, from Philadelphia, where we were living last year, so in June and July I was doing lots of little bursts of reading between unpacking boxes. Short stories ended up serving me well, particularly because this fall I’ll be teaching several collections I haven’t taught before. Charles D’Ambrosio is one of my favorite writers, and I was rereading The Dead Fish Museum, and also reading Colm Tóibín’s wonderful collection of stories Mothers and Sons, which my colleague Joan Silber, a terrific short story writer herself, recommended to me. [read on]Read an excerpt from Matrimony, and learn more about the novel and its author at Joshua Henkin's website and his blog.
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The Page 69 Test: Matrimony.
Writers Read: Joshua Henkin.
--Marshal Zeringue