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Matrimony.(Joshua Henkin's Matrimony)(Brief article)

The New Yorker

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Toward the end of Henkin's second novel, Julian, who has just arrived at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, finds that the other students do not like his work. "The story was quiet; all his work was," Henkin writes. "He had nothing against muscular prose; it was the flexing of those muscles that he objected to, and, along with it, a disregard for character." The passage encapsulates Henkin's telling of the story of two couples who meet ...

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