Stan Persky
Stan Persky taught philosophy at Capilano University in N. Vancouver, B.C. He received the 2010 B.C. Lieutenant-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence. His most recent books are Reading the 21st Century: Books of the Decade, 2000-2009 (McGill-Queen's, 2011), Post-Communist Stories: About Cities, Politics, Desires (Cormorant, 2014), and Letter from Berlin: Essays 2015-2016 (Dooney's, 2017).
Letter from Berlin: The Twilight of the Gods
Berlin goes to the polls to vote on religion versus ethics.
Heroes
Stan Persky reads an unforgettable novel about heroes.
Intimate Sources
Stan Persky’s mini-memoir about Attila Richard Lukacs’s Polaroid studies.
Indelible
Stan Persky re-reads the first great American novel of the millennium.
Exit Strategies
Stan Persky considers literary endgames.
A Poet and A City
Stan Persky reads George Stanley’s Vancouver: A Poem, and thinks about “The darkness of the mind & the darkness of death, / & in between the bright day, bright city.”
Boobies
Stan Persky reads Canada’s 2008 novel of the year, and meets some odd birds.
Haunted by a Spectre
Stan Persky reads Paul Krugman’s new book about the collapse of capitalism, and sees a ghost.
Books of the Year, 2008
We’re making a list and checking it twice; so is everyone else.