Joshua Henkin, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS: A Novel

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Joshua Henkin joins Zibby to discuss his latest novel, Morningside Heights, which took him eight years and three thousand pages to write. Joshua shares how the story was inspired by his own family's experience with Alzheimer's and his childhood growing up on the Upper West Side. The two also talk about Joshua's MFA program, how growing up in an academic family shaped his career trajectory, and why he wanted to tell this story over the span of so many years.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:40.7	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to
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1:02.9	stress. It doesn't mean I don't have stress. It just means I don't have time for stress.
1:09.7	Joshua Henkin is the author of Morningside Heights.
1:12.9	Joshua is the author also of novels Swimming Across the Hudson, a Los Angeles Times
1:17.3	notable book, Matrimony, a New York Times notable book, and The World Without You, winner of the 2012
1:23.2	Edward Lewis Wallent Award for Jewish American Fiction and a finalist for the 2012 National Jewish Book Award.
1:31.2	His short stories have been published widely, cited for distinction in Best American Short Stories,
1:36.1	and broadcast on NPR's selected shorts.
1:38.5	He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and directs the MFA program in fiction writing at Brooklyn College.
1:43.9	Welcome, Joshua. Thank you so much for
1:45.5	coming on Moms Stone have time to read books to discuss morning side heights. Thank you, Zibbe. I'm really
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