Joanna Hershon
Joanna Hershon's most recent novel, A Dual Inheritance, was published by Ballantine Books. She’s an adjunct assistant professor in the Creative Writing department at Columbia University.
Articles by Joanna Hershon
Assimilation and Romanticizing the Past
My paternal grandparents lived across from a canal in Long Beach on Long Island. We went to their house every ...
An Insult and a Very Jewish Conversation
When I was twenty, I met a charming elderly man on a train in Greece who told me I looked ...
The Memorial
I recently attended my friend’s father’s memorial. It was held at the Faculty House of Columbia University in a perfectly ...