Michael Mark Brodsky (born Aug 2, 1948) is a scientific/medical editor, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels '' Xman'' and '' ***'', as well as for his translation of

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's '' Eleuthéria''.

Early life and education

Michael Brodsky was born in

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, the son of Martin and Marian Brodsky. He attended the

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.''Detour'', author information He received a 1969 BA from

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, taught math and science in New York for a year, attended Case Western Reserve University medical school for two years, then taught French and English in Cleveland until 1975. Brodsky returned to New York City in 1976, working as an editor for the Institute for Research on Rheumatic Diseases. He married Laurence Lacoste. They are the parents of two children, Joseph Matthew and Matthew Daniel. From 1985 to 1991, Brodsky was an editor with

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. After 1991, he was with the

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. Brodsky lives on

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Bibliography

Novels

*''

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'', 1978 * ''Circuits'', 1983 * '' Xman'',

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, 1987 * ''

Dyad Dyad or dyade may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Dyad (music), a set of two notes or pitches * ''Dyad'' (novel), by Michael Brodsky, 1989 * ''Dyad'' (video game), 2012 * ''Dyad 1909'' and ''Dyad 1929'', ballets by Wayne McGregor *Dyad Insti ...

'', Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989 * '' ***'', Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994 * '' We Can Report Them'', Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999 * ''Lurianics'', Gray Oak Books, 2013 * ''Invidicum'', Tough Poets Press, 2023

Short stories

* ''Wedding Feast'', 1981 * ''Project'', 1982 * ''X in Paris'', 1988 * ''Three Goat Songs'', 1991 * ''Southernmost'', 1996 * ''Limit Point'', 2007

Plays

* ''Terrible Sunlight'', 1980 * ''Packet Piece'', 1982 * ''No Packet Piece'', 1982 * ''Dose Center'', 1990 * ''Night of the Chair'', 1990 * ''Six Scenes: A Barracks Brawl'', 1994 * ''The Anti-Muse'', reading 1996, performance 2000

Translation

* '' Eleuthéria'', by

, written 1947, suppressed, published 1995

Nonfiction

*"Svevo: The Artist as Analyzand", ''Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry'', 15 no. 2-3 (1977), pp 112–133. *"Toward the Plane of the Sacred: Hafftka’s Great Chain of Being
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for Michael Hafftka "A Retrospective: Large Oils 1985-2003" (2004).Hafftka was the illustrator (cover and some internal) for Brodsky's early fiction, and later for

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References

''CANRS'' refers to ''Contemporary Authors New Revision Series'', and ''DLB'' refers to ''Dictionary of Literary Biography''. Full citations are above. {{DEFAULTSORT:Brodsky, Michael American editors Postmodernists Living people 1948 births Columbia College (New York) alumni People from Roosevelt Island