Mark Jay Mirsky

Mark Jay Mirsky, professor of English at The City College of New York published his first novel, Thou Worm Jacob, in 1967, succeeded by Proceedings of the Rabble, in 1971, Blue Hill Avenue in 1972, and a collection of short novellas and stories, The Secret Table, in 1975 with a cover by Donald Barthelme. In 1977, Mirsky published My Search for the Messiah, a collection of essays including sketches of major Jewish thinkers: Harry Wolfson, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, and Gershom Scholem. His novel, The Red Adam, was published in 1990, The 252 Absent Shakespeare appeared in 1995, followed by Dante Eros and Kabbalah in 2003, a sketch of the poet, Robert Creeley, Creeley, Pressed Wafer in 2007, and a play Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard produced at the Fringe Festival in NYC, 2007. The Drama in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, A Satire to Decay, was published in 2011. In 2014, Mirsky’s novel Puddingstone appeared, and in 2016, a memoir of Ruth S. Mirsky, A Mother’s Steps. Among work he has edited are Rabbinic Fantasies—an anthology co-edited with David Stern in 1990, The Diaries of Robert Musil (1998), The Jews of Pinsk, Volume 1: 1506–1880, in 2008, and Volume 2: 1881–1941, in 2013.

Fiction Stories by Mark Jay Mirsky

Cain Imagined	Number 65
Noah	Number 64
Sinbad The Sailor’s Last Story	Number 62
On Account of an Apple	Number 61
II. Do I Know You?	Number 60
I. Who was Scheherazade	Number 60
Ask Lot	Number 57
Jonas As Traveller	Number 56
Scheherezade: Constructed	Number 55
Lake	Vol. 20, No. 2
Moon Prayers	Vol. 20, No. 1
Knock	Vol. 19, No. 2
The College Magician	Vol. 18, No. 2
The Island Wench	Vol. 16, No. 2
Puddingstones	Vol. 15, No. 2
The Brooklyn Golem	Vol. 14, No. 1
A Mother's Ghost	Vol. 12, Nos. 2&3
Westward Ho!	Vol. 11, No. 1
Emerson's Child	Vol. 10, No. 3
A Mother's Ark	Vol. 9, No. 3
Last Of The Ponkapoags	Vol. 8, Nos. 2&3
The Brass Nail	Vol. 7, No. 3 & Vol. 8, No. 1
Dante And King David	Vol. 7, Nos. 1&2
Introduction To Rabbinic Fantasy	Vol. 7, No. 1&2
The Blue Star	Vol. 6, No. 2
The Little White Dog	Vol. 6, No. 1
Flood	Vol. 3, Nos. 2&3
Copley Square	Vol. 2, No. 3
Forest	Vol. 1, No. 4
Milky Way	Vol. 1, No. 1

Fiction Editorials by Mark Jay Mirsky

A Novelist’s Notes (Re: "The Completion of Love" by Robert Musil)	Number 64
Snubs and Cemeteries: A Correspondence Between Cynthia Ozick & Mark J. Mirsky	Number 59
Introduction to Henry Roth	Number 57
Preface to "A Interview with Harold Brodkey"	Number 57
Introduction to "Max Frisch at City College of New York, 1981"	Number 54
Foreword to "From: The Unpublished Letters Of Isaac Babel"	Vol. 20, No. 2
William Alfred As I Remember Him	Vol. 18, No. 2
Preface to "The Duty of Delight: A Memoir" by William Alfred	Vol. 18, No. 2
Preface to "Three Other Women" by Robert Musil	Vol. 17, No. 2
Notes On The Production & Text (Re: "Vinzenz And The Mistress Of Important Men" by Robert Musil)	Vol. 16, No. 1
Foreword to "The Writer And His Partners: The Function Of Literature In Society" by Max Frisch	Vol. 9, No. 2
Introduction to "Lecture At City College November 1981, Part One" by Max Frisch	Vol. 7, No. 3 & Vol. 8, No. 1
Introduction To Rabbinic Fantasy	Vol. 7, Nos. 1&2
Foreword to Ten Cuban Writers	Vol. 6, No. 3

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