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Joanna Hershon

Joanna Hershon
Joanna Hershon is the author of the novels Swimming, The Outside of August, The German Bride, and A Dual Inheritance. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, One Story, Virginia Quarterly Review, and two literary anthologies, Brooklyn Was Mine and Freud’s Blind Spot. She is an adjunct assistant professor in the Creative Writing Department at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the painter Derek Buckner, their twin sons, and their daughter.


Writerly Lessons From an Early ’90s Improv Class

Joanna Hershon on What Theater Taught Her About Scene,
Character, and Rejection
April 27, 2020  By Joanna Hershon
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