{"id":46,"date":"2008-09-05T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/05\/joshua-henkin-book-blogs\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T13:12:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:12:15","slug":"joshua-henkin-book-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/05\/joshua-henkin-book-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Henkin Goes All Out on the Book Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"joshua-henkin.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/joshua-henkin.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" \/>Last year, when his debut novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/030727716x\"><i>Matrimony<\/i><\/a>, came out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuahenkin.com\/\">Joshua Henkin<\/a> contributed two guest essays to <i>Beatrice<\/i>, writing about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/002159.html\">staying with your characters over time<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/archives\/002159.html\">condensing a twenty-year story to 300 pages<\/a>. Now that <i>Matrimony<\/i> is out in paperback, Henkin&#8217;s winding his way through the blogosphere again, with (among other efforts) <a href=\"http:\/\/marksarvas.blogs.com\/elegvar\/guest_bloggers\/\">a marathon session<\/a> at <i>The Elegant Variation<\/i> (24 posts in one day!) and longer meditations on <a href=\"http:\/\/booksquare.com\/joshua-henkin-some-thoughts-on-book-groups-book-sales-book-review-sections-and-the-publishing-industry-part-the-first\/\">book groups<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/booksquare.com\/joshua-henkin-some-thoughts-on-book-groups-book-sales-book-review-sections-and-the-publishing-industry-part-the-second\/\">online book culture<\/a> at <i>Booksquare<\/i>. Well worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, when his debut novel, Matrimony, came out, Joshua Henkin contributed two guest essays to Beatrice, writing about staying with your characters over time and condensing a twenty-year story to 300 pages. Now that Matrimony is out in paperback, Henkin&#8217;s winding his way through the blogosphere again, with (among other efforts) a marathon session [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}