JESSIE VAN RHEENEN: I want to open with the language of your stories in Coulrophobia and Fata Morgana. Forthcoming are The Liars’ Asylum (Black Lawrence Press) and a second novel, Millard Salter’s Last Day, out in November 2017 from Gallery Books, a Simon & Schuster imprint.ĭuring the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Washington, D.C., I sat down with Appel over coffee for a discussion of his approach to absurdity in fiction, matriarchal families, the value of MFA programs, the illusion of authenticity, and expanding fair use. This year alone, Appel will publish four books, a confluence he describes as “an embarrassment of riches.” So far in 2017, he has released a story collection and a novel: The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street, winner of the 2016 Howling Bird Press Fiction Award, and The Mask of Sanity (Permanent Press). His short fiction has appeared in over two hundred literary journals he also publishes in the field of bioethics and is a practicing psychiatrist in New York City. Appel is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction, including the recent story collection Coulrophobia and Fata Morgana.
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