While working on a retelling of Gone With the Wind from the wind’s point of view… He taught for many years at Brown University and currently practices medicine at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital. Other collections include The Magic Laundry (2015) and Phoning Home: Essays (2014). His story collection, Scouting for the Reaper (2014), won the Hudson Prize. Appel is the author of the novels, The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, which won the 2012 Dundee International Book Award, and The Biology of Luck (2013). The stories capture the author's distinctive voice-a blend of a physician's compassion and an ethicist's constant questioning.The author of the Coulrophobia &Fata Morgana We learn of the crank phone calls he made to his own family, the conspicuous absence of Jell-O at his grandaunt's house, and family secrets long believed buried. Shortly thereafter Fat and Thin were lost forever-beginning, when Appel was just six years old, what he calls his ""private apocalypse."" Both erudite and full-hearted, Appel recounts storylines ranging from a bout of unrequited love gone awry to the poignant romance of his grandparents. I had my two travel companions, Fat and Thin, securely buckled into the backseat of my mother's foul-tempered Dodge Dart, "" writes Appel of his family vacation with his two favorite rubber cat toys.
""We'd just visited my grandaunt in Miami Beach, the last time we would ever see her.
At times sardonic and at others self-deprecating, Appel lays bare the most private aspects of his emotional life. Appel's recollections and insights, informed and filtered by his advanced degrees in medicine, law, and ethics, not only inspire nostalgic feelings but also offer insight into contemporary medical and ethical issues. Phoning Home is a collection of entertaining and thought-provoking essays featuring the author's quirky family, his Jewish heritage, and his New York City upbringing.
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