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Novelist Mirsky to read works

Mark Jay Mirsky
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Mark Jay Mirsky

Mark Jay Mirsky, novelist and founding editor of Fiction Magazine, will read from his works on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m. in Room 14E-304.

Mirsky, who is also a professor of English at City College of New York, has written 'Diaries: Robert Musil 1899-1942'; 'Dante, Eros and Kabbalah'; 'My Search for the Messiah: Studies and Wanderings in Israel and America'; 'Blue Hill Avenue: A Novel'; 'The Red Adam'; and 'Absent Shakespeare.'

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on September 21, 2005 (download PDF).

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