Author Spotlight, Episode 1 - Elan Barnehama
In episode 1 of our Author Spotlight series, founder and editor of History Through Fiction Colin Mustful chats with Elan Barnehama, author of the novel Escape Route. During the interview, Barnehama talks about the influence Bob Dylan’s music had on him in his youth, the importance of breaking the cycle of generational trauma, and what it truly means to be a New Yorker. Don’t miss it!
About the Author
Elan Barnehama is a writing and literature professor whose writing has appeared in Rough Cut Press, Red Fez, Boston Accent, Jewish Fiction, Drunk Monkeys, Writer’s Digest, HuffPost, the New York Journal of Books, public radio, and elsewhere. He is a New Yorker by geography and a Mets fan by default. His new novel Escape Route is a powerful coming of age story set against the tumult of the 1960s, the War in Vietnam, and the power of memory and Jewish identity in a family of Holocaust survivors.
