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4 unusual facts about Jacob M. Appel


Health insurance in the United States

Instead, as Edward Beiser and Jacob Appel have separately argued, health insurers are better thought of as low-risk money managers who pocket the interest on what are really long-term healthcare savings accounts.

Jacob Appel

Jacob M. Appel (born 1973), American author, bioethicist and social critic

Little Theatre of Alexandria

It has played an important role in launching the careers of playwrights such as Sandra Fenichel Asher, Rich Orloff, and Jacob M. Appel.

Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre

Recent productions include Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan (2000), Matt Hanf's "Three Messiahs Walk Into a Bar" (2007), and Jacob Appel's Thirds (2010).


Bellevue Literary Review

The Bellevue Literary Review has published the works of Charles Bukowski, Philip Levine, Sharon Olds, David Lehman, Eamon Grennan, Julia Alvarez, Rick Moody, Hal Sirowitz, Charles Barber, Peter Selgin, Amy Hempel, Stephen Dixon, Virgil Suarez, Sheila Kohler, and Jacob M. Appel.

Chariton Review

Among established writers whose work has appeared in The Chariton Review are David Wagoner, Michael Pettit, James Sallis, Ann Pancake, Gordon Weaver, Jacob Appel and David Lawrence.

Colorado Review

Other notable writers whose work has appeared in this journal are Charles Baxter, G.C. Waldrep, Tomaž Šalamun, Peter Selgin, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Valery Varble, Alix Ohlin, Steven Church, Brandon Schrand, Rosmarie Waldrop, Jacob M. Appel, Robert H. Abel, and Floyd Skloot.

David A. Eklund

In response to this opportunity, Eklund, along with Peter A. Appel, formed the Bermuda based reinsurer Aeolus Re to write property catastrophe business.

Gerald B. Appel

Appel gained widespread recognition during the early 2000s for his role in securing a kidney transplant for professional basketball player Alonzo Mourning and for enabling Mourning to return to the court for an NBA championship.

Henry D. Lindsley

His father was a judge and his maternal uncle, Jacob M. Dickinson, was a judge and the Secretary of War in President Taft's Cabinet.

Jabberwock Review

Recent notable contributors include poets Nicky Beer and Brian Barker and fiction writers Jacob M. Appel and Robert Parham.

Jacob Dickinson

Jacob M. Dickinson (1851–1928), United States Secretary of War, 1909–1911

Michigan Quarterly Review

In recent years the magazine has published nonfiction by Margaret Atwood, Carol Gilligan, Douglas Hofstadter, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, Amos Oz, Richard Rorty, John Updike, and William Julius Wilson and fiction by Eileen Pollack, Peter Orner and Jacob Appel.

Potomac Review

Writers who have contributed to this journal include Amina Gautier, Seth Abramson, Jacob M. Appel, Lisa Ohlen Harris, David Wagoner, Ned Balbo and Margaret MacInnis.

Robert Olen Butler Prize

As of 2009, three individuals had appeared in the anthology more than once: Jacob M. Appel (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), Erin Soros (2008, 2009) and Mark Wisniewski (2008, 2009).

StoryQuarterly

Notable writers who have contributed to this journal include Russell Banks, Richard Ford, Denis Johnson, Jacob M. Appel, Keith Lee Morris, Dan O'Brien, T.C. Boyle, Margaret Atwood, and Jhumpa Lahiri.

The Chattahoochee Review

Among the writers whose work has appeared in the journal are George Singleton, Flannery O'Connor, Juliana Baggott, Steve Almond, Thomas Lux, Jacob M. Appel, Amina Gautier, and Alice Friman.

The Cimarron Review

Recent contributors of note include short story writers Jacob M. Appel, Gary Fincke, Rebecca Aronson and poet Christien Gholson.

The Mistress of Wholesome

The Mistress of Wholesome is a play by Jacob Appel that premiered at the Little Theatre of Alexandria on May 16, 2008.

Timber Creek Review

Among the established writers whose careers the TCR helped launch are Corey Mesler, Ron Cooper, Jacob Appel, Pamela Hughes, Brady Allen, Daniel Brugioni, Marion Hodge, and Marie Manilla.


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