Fiction Magazine Presents: Paula Bomer, Joseph McElroy, and Mark Jay Mirsky

 
Fiction Magazine Presents
Readings by Paula Bomer, Joseph McElroy, and Mark Jay Mirsky

Paula Bomer grew up in South Bend Indiana and lives in New York. Her book of short stories, BABY, is due out in May 2009 by Impetus Press. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Mississippi Review, Open City, Fiction, The New York Tyrant, Word Riot, Nerve, Storyglossia, juked and elsewhere.

Joseph McElroy is the author of nine novels, including Women and Men, Lookout Cartridge, A Smuggler's Bible, Actress in the House, and Plus. Also a book of essays and, approaching completion, a non-fiction book about water.

Mark Jay Mirsky is Editor-in-chief of Fiction, a magazine which he founded with Donald Barthelme, Max & Marianne Frisch and Jane DeLynn in 1972. Mr.Mirsky has published numerous stories and 10 books among them the novels,Thou Worm Jacob, Blue Hill Avenue, Proceedings of the Rabble, The Red Adam; a collection of fiction, The Secret Table, three volumes of essays, My Search for the Messiah, The Absent Shakespeare, and his latest Dante, Eros and Kabbalah (Syracuse University Press. He is co-editor of Rabbinic Fantasies (Yale Judaica), The Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1880 (Stanford University Press)  and editor of the English translation of the Diaries of Robert Musil (Basic Books) and the pamphlet, "Creeley."  A Professor of English at The City College of New York, Mark Jay Mirsky has been a member of Actor's Equity and a director of Medieval Mystery Plays at Saint Mark's Church in the Bouerie. His play "Mother Hubbard's Cupboard" was performed at the Fringe Festival in New York City in August, 2007.