question: Who wrote a 2013 reimaging of what was originally a modernist novel by an Irish writer?
answer: Jacob M. Appel
context: Title: Ryder (novel)
  Passage: Ryder (1928) is the first novel by Djuna Barnes.  A composite of different literary styles, from lyrical poetry to sentimental fiction, it is an example of a modernist novel in the Rabelaisian tradition of bawdy and parodic fiction.  Nearly every chapter is written in a different style.  The novel is thought to draw on elements of Barnes's own life.
  Title: Ulysses (novel)
  Passage: Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce.  It was first serialised in parts in the American journal "The Little Review" from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its entirety in Paris by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, Joyce's 40th birthday.  It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement".  According to Declan Kiberd, "Before Joyce, no writer of fiction had so foregrounded the process of thinking."
  Title: The Sun Also Rises
  Passage: The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights.  An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication.  Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work", and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel.  The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by the publishing house Scribner's.  A year later, the London publishing house Jonathan Cape published the novel with the title of Fiesta.  Since then it has been continuously in print.
  Title: The Biology of Luck
  Passage: The Biology of Luck is a 2013 American novel by Jacob M. Appel.  It is a reimagining of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and is set in New York City.
citations: Ulysses (novel) The Biology of Luck