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).
Larry Fagin and Prose Poems
Larry Fagin (1937-2017) thought that a lot of life was “off-the-cuff” and that “prose poems” were one way of conveying that insight.
Read MoreDesperately Seeking Readers
Reading is in big trouble, says critic Alex Good. CanLit, he adds, may be in even bigger trouble.
Read MoreLetter from Europe: The Little Dutch Boy
He stuck his finger in the leaky dike. Did it stop the floodwaters of right-wing populism washing over Europe?
Read MoreNarrating Galloway
Novelist Steven Galloway got fired from his job as Creative Writing Dept. chair at UBC. What happened? It depends on the story you tell.
Read MoreTrump’s Oink-Oink, er, Inaugural Speech
The joys of free speech and writing columns-by-number.
Read MoreJohn Berger, 1926-2017
The death of a storyteller.
Read MoreLetter from Berlin: Read the News Today, Oh Boy
Berlin terrorist attack. The here and there of it.
Read MoreBrawl on the Beach: The Making of an Absurdist Masterpiece
How Albert Camus’s literary classic came into being, despite an absurd world and an absent divinity.
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