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).
REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
Stan Persky reviews The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki
TROUBLE IN MIND
Stan Persky reviews A Beautiful Mind: the book and the movie.
BANGKOK
The Short Version takes us to Southeast Asia..
SELLING CANADIAN NOVELS: WHO CARES?
Stan Persky makes a relevant point about commerce and Literature at Brian Fawcett’s expense.
FINDING, DREAMING, MAKING
Stan Persky reviews Paul Strathern’s book on Dmitri Mendeleyev, who created the Periodic Table
SONNET ABOUT ORPHEUS 3 (MIROIR)
The third in a developing series
David Berg
Stan Persky documents the short, strange life of a charismatic West Coast therapist…
THE CENSOR’S PASSION
From Thailand, Persky offers a view of J.M. Coetzee’s 1996 Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship
Wilder Bentley and Walt Whitman
Stan Persky is back with the next entry in The Short Version, this one about an important teacher, and an important poet
SONNET ABOUT ORPHEUS 2
Today no one cares about the tongue of Orpheus cut out by order of the tyrant yesterday. And everyday schoolchildren visit the museum to gaze indifferently upon the tongue of Orpheus in a glass case. Allthat’slivingmemorytome isbuttheendofhistory for the children bow their heads only to the little screens in their palms "…class…