Michael Brodsky
Michael Mark Brodsky 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 Samuel Beckett's Eleuthéria.
Early life and education
Michael Brodsky was born in New York City, the son of Martin and Marian Brodsky. He attended the Bronx [High School of Science]. He received a 1969 BA from Columbia College, Columbia University, taught math and science in New York for a year, attended Case [Western Reserve University School of Medicine|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 Springer-Verlag. After 1991, he was with the United Nations.
Brodsky lives on Roosevelt Island.
Novels
- Detour, 1978Circuits, 1983Xman, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1987Dyad, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989***, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994We Can Report Them, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999Lurianics, Gray Oak Books, 2013Invidicum, Tough Poets Press, 2023
Short stories
Wedding Feast, 1981Project, 1982X in Paris, 1988Three Goat Songs, 1991Southernmost, 1996Limit Point, 2007Plays
Terrible Sunlight, 1980Packet Piece, 1982No Packet Piece, 1982Dose Center, 1990Night of the Chair, 1990Six Scenes: A Barracks Brawl, 1994The Anti-Muse, reading 1996, performance 2000Translation
Eleuthéria, by Samuel Beckett, written 1947, suppressed, published 1995Nonfiction
- "Svevo: The Artist as Analyzand", Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, 15 no. 2-3, pp 112–133.
- "Toward the Plane of the Sacred: Hafftka’s Great Chain of Being" in the for Michael Hafftka "A Retrospective: Large Oils 1985-2003".