Joseph Skibell
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Joseph Skibell

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Possessing "a gifted, committed imagination" (New York Times), Joseph Skibell is the author of three novels, A Blessing on the Moon, The English Disease, A Curable Romantic, a collection of stories, My Father's Guitar & Other Imaginary Things (forthcoming), and a mythopoetic study entitled Six Memos From the Last Millennium: A Novelist Reads the Talmud (also forthcoming). He has received numerous awards, including the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Sami Rohr Award in Jewish Literature, and Story Magazine's Short Short-Story Prize. His work has been described as "daring in its ... honesty" (New York Times); "witty and profound" (Jerusalem Report); "laugh-outloud humorous" (Forward); "brave ... unafraid" (New York Journal of Books); "magical" (New Yorker); "high-energy, wild" (New Republic); and "wholly original" (JM Coetzee). Skibell's novels, stories and essays have been widely anthologized and translated, most recently into Ido and Chinese. He has written or translated essays for three books of photographs: Loli Kantor's Beyond the Forest, Neil Folberg's The Serpent's Chronicle, and Fred Stein: Paris New York. As the director of the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature from 2008 to 2015, he sang and played guitar onstage with both Margaret Atwood and Paul Simon, though not at the same time. The Winship Distinguished Research Professor in the Humanities at Emory University, Skibell has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Bar-Ilan University, and the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. In 2014-2015, he was a Senior Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. (Photos by Laura Noel and Jeffrey Allen)
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