in terms of a novel word, such as exopolitics and in vitro meat. Keats is a fiction writer as well, the author of two novels, The Pathology of Lies, published in English by Warner Books, and Lighter Than Vanity, published exclusively in Russian by Eksmo. The Book of the Unknown, a collection of fables loosely based on Talmudic legend, was published by Random House in February 2009 and awarded the Sophie Brody Award by the American Library Association in 2010. While the stories are said by Kirkus Reviews to have "echoes of Isaac Bashevis Singer, Sholom Aleichem and S.Y. Agnon", Salon.com compares them to The Princess Bride ("without the gloss"). Since publication, the most persistent question has been whether the author Jonathon Keats is the same person as the conceptual artist. (A reviewer for the New York Observer even deconstructed his Wikipedia entry.) However Keats has assured interviewers that the writer and artist are the same person, telling Salon that his fables, like his art, are a form of thought experiment. Bibliography Fiction Nonfiction Art and curatorial work Essays and reporting References External links New Yorker Magazine brief profile Good Magazine profile Space.com gallery Big Think interview Salon.com interview Outside Magazine profile KQED-TV/PBS short documentary Judah L. Magnes Museum documentary SF Weekly profile Jonathon Keats at Modernism Gallery An interview with Jonathon Keats on The Marketplace of Ideas An interview with Jonathon Keats on Notebook on Cities and Culture The Electrochemical Currency Exchange Co. Hong Kong event website 1971 births Living people 21st-century American novelists American conceptual artists American installation artists Amherst College alumni Modern artists Artists from New York City Artists from San Francisco American performance artists American art critics American male novelists Discover (magazine) people 21st-century American male writers Novelists from New York (state) Thought experiments in philosophy 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers