Mark Jay Mirsky
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Mark Jay Mirsky, is an American writer and professor of English at City College of New York. His books include four novels (Thou Worm Jacob, Proceedings of the Rabble, Blue Hill Avenue and The Red Adam), The Secret Table, a collection of novellas; and several books of nonfiction including My Search for the Messiah: Studies and Wanderings in Israel and America and The Absent Shakespeare. He also edited, and wrote the introduction for, Diaries: Robert Musil 1899-1942. His last book, Dante, Eros, and Kabbalah, is a combination of literary criticism, Jewish mysticism and personal narrative.
He is the editor of Fiction,a literary magazine at City College which he founded in 1972 with Donald Barthelme and Max Frisch.
