Mark J. Mirsky
Professor, Editor of Fiction Magazine
Building
North Academic Center
Office
6/318B
Phone
212-650-6350
Mark J. Mirsky
Education
B.A., Harvard University
M.A., Stanford University
Research Interests
- Shakespeare
- Fiction
- Jewish Literature
Publications
Books:
Thou Worm Jacob, Macmillan, May 1967.
Proceedings of the Rabble, Bobbs Merrill, May 1971.
Blue Hill Avenue, Bobbs Merrill, November 1972.
The Secret Table, Braziller-Fiction Collective, May 1975.
My Search for the Messiah, Macmillan, May 1977.
Boston, Un Guide Transam茅ricain, Autrement Editions, 1988.
The Red Adam, Sun & Moon, May, 1990.
Rabbinic Fantasy, anthology edited with Professor David Stern, Jewish Publication Society, September, 1990.
The Absent Shakespeare, Associated University Presses, Fairleigh Dickinson, January 1995, reprinted 2002.
Rabbinic Fantasies, edited with Professor David Stern, revised and issued in paperback by Yale Judaica, Yale University Press, April, 1998.
The Diaries of Robert Musil, editor and introduction by, Basic Books, December, 1998.
The Diaries of Robert Musil, editor and introduction by, issued in paperback by Basic Books, 1999.
Dante, Eros and Kabbalah, Syracuse University Press, October, 2003.
Creeley, Pressed Wafer, [Booklet], April, 2007.
The Jews of Pinsk 1506-1880, Co-editor. Preface, 鈥淎 Novelist in the Blottes,鈥 xvii-xxxii, The Pinsk Yizkor Histories, Volume One, The Stanford University Press, Fall, 2007.
The Drama in Shakespeare鈥檚 Sonnets A Satire to Decay, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,October 2011.
The Jews of Pinsk: 1881-1941, Co-editor, Preface, 鈥淭he Family Murdered,鈥 The Pinsk Yizkor Histories, Volume Two. The Stanford University Press, 2013.
Puddingstone, Franklin Park, Golem Books, 2014.
A Mother鈥檚 Steps, Golem Books, 2016.
A Chapter on Mark Jay Mirsky appears in Jules Chametzky鈥檚 Out of Brownsville, pp. 95-98, Meredith Writer Press, 2012
Magazine Publication last five years
鈥淚srael, September 2004,鈥 the Ilanot Review, Volume 1, No. 1, pp. 102-116, Spring 2011.
鈥淎sk Lot,鈥 Fiction, No. 57, June, 2011.
鈥淧reface to Henry Roth鈥檚 First Years in Maine,鈥 Fiction, No 57, June 2011.
鈥淚ntroduction to an Interview with Harold Brodkey,鈥 Fiction, No 57, June 2011.
鈥淧eople are Not my Thing,鈥 Review of Lev Loseff鈥檚 Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life, Haaretz , p. 1, 6-7, June, 2011.
鈥淎 Particular Iniquity,鈥 A Brief History of Autho-Terrorism, edited by Gabriel Levinson, Antibook Club, pp. 49-58, October 2011.
鈥淩uth Maier鈥攅n av oss,鈥 Samtiden, edited by Cathrine Sandness, pp. 67-75, translated by Jan Erik Vold, 2*2012.
鈥淲ho was Scheherazade, 鈥淒o I Know You? Fiction, Volume 60.
鈥淢辞辫蝉测,鈥 The Capra Review, spring 2014. Online,
鈥淭he East Side Golem,鈥 Shadowgraph, summer 2014, print, Online
脴stidens golemer, La Grenada 5, Oslo, Norway, summer 2014.
鈥淥ther people鈥檚 stories . . .? Why do you want them?鈥 The Massachusetts Review, spring 2015.
鈥淥n Account of an Apple.鈥 Fiction, Volume 61.
鈥淪henanigans: Robert Musil's Thought Flights | Review鈥 - Mark Jay Mirsky Numero Cinq, Vol. VI, No. 7, July 2015, page/back-issues1/2015-2/.
鈥淕ravity鈥檚 Box,鈥 .
鈥淭he Anxiety of Laughter: An essay on Reading Dante.鈥
Book Chapters last two years
鈥淟iterary Magazine Publishing, chapter in The Business of Writing, edited by Jennifer Lyons with a Forward by Oscar Hijuelos, NY: Allworth Press, 2012.
Recent Public Lectures
Lecture on the Diaries of Ruth Maier, The Holocaust Center, Oslo, November lst, 2010.
Interview, Norwegian Radio, NRK-P2, November lst, 2010.
Lecture. Ruth Maier. Judiska Biblioket, (The Jewish Library), Stockholm, Sweden. November 3rd, 2010.
Lecture. Ruth Maier. The University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. November 4th, 2010.
The 鈥渞eality鈥 of the work of Tomas Transtormer.T uesday, November 14, 2011, At T九色视频, The Division of Science, in the series, 鈥淲ho Won This Year鈥檚 Nobel Prize and Why?鈥
Dramatic Productions
Mother Hubbard鈥檚 Cupboard, Fringe NYC 2007
Web Publication
Mother Hubbard鈥檚 Cupboard, Indie Theatre Now, FringeNYC 2007 collection.
Mopsy, The Capra Review.
Numero Cinq, Vol. VI, No. 7, July 2015, page/back-issues1/2015-2/
鈥淕ravity鈥檚 Box.鈥
鈥淭he Anxiety of Laughter.鈥
Books In Translation:
Los Delerios del Rabino Lux, Ediciones de la Flor, Buenos Aires, May 1976.
(translation of the novel, Blue Hill Avenue).
Book Chapters
The Single Voice, edited by Jerome Charyn, 鈥淪imcha,鈥 Collier, 1969.
Mirror and Mirage: The Portable Stanford, edited by Albert J. Guerard, 鈥淪imcha,鈥 Stanford Alumni Association, 1980.
Gates to the New City, edited by Howard Schwartz, 鈥淭he Generation of the Flood,鈥 Avon, 1983.
Congregation, edited by David Rosenberg, 鈥淒aniel,鈥 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.
Testimony, edited by David Rosenberg, 鈥淥ur Houses? Our Holy Places?鈥 Random House, 1989.
The Uncommon Touch, edited by John L鈥橦eureux, 鈥淪ongs of Infancy,鈥 Stanford Alumni Association, Stanford, California.
Ways of Knowing,鈥 edited by John Brockman, 鈥淔iction鈥攊ts Uses and Misuses, Prentice Hall Press, 1991.
Our Country, Our Culture, edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Phillips, 鈥淔alse Gods,鈥 1994.
Jewish American Literature, edited by Jules Chametzky, John Felstiner, Hilene Flanzbaum, Kathryn Hellerstein, 鈥淢emory Candle,鈥 pp. 1060-1066, Norton Anthology, 2001.
110 Stories, edited by Ulrich Baer, 鈥淭ime & King David,鈥 New York University Press, pp. 206-207, Sept 11th, 2002. Republished in paperback 2004.
Angell, 鈥淥lav is not Seventy,鈥 pp. 93-94, 2002, Gyldendal Forlag.
Max Frisch, Schwarzes Quadrat, 鈥淓ine Diskussion,鈥 77-82, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008.
Plays in Production
鈥淢other Hubbard鈥檚 Cupboard,鈥 produced at The Fringe Festival-2007, Manhattan, Directed by Marc Palmieri, August 11, 13, 18, 23, 25
Courses Taught
The Graduate Workshop in Fiction.
The Advanced Fiction Workshop, Undergraduate.
Shakespeare's Plays and Sonnets (On the Graduate and Undergraduate level).
The Experimental novel and short story in the Twentieth Century. (On the Graduate and Undergraduate level).
Post Modernism.
The Bible in Modern Fiction.
The Old and New Testament as Literature.
Introduction to Creative Writing.