Possessing a gifted, committed imagination ("New York Times"), Joseph Skibell is the author of three novels, "A Blessing on the Moon, The English Disease, "and" A Curable Romantic"; the forthcoming collection of nonfiction stories" My Father s Guitar and Other Imaginary Things"; and another forthcoming nonfiction work, "Six Memos from the Last Millennium: A Novelist Reads the Talmud." 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, "St...