The Activist Thinker as Ideal Friend: Remembering Stan Persky - The Tyee

What can I tell you about my cherished friend Stan Persky, who died on Oct. 15, in Berlin? Born to working-class Jewish parents in Chicago in 1941, he knew early on that he wanted to be a writer and as a teenager he reached out to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to invite mentoring. This was a typically nervy move by the young Persky, who had, even then, as family members commented, “such a mouth on him.” ANNOUNCEMENTS, EVENTS & MORE FROM TYEE AND SELECT PARTNERS Bard on the Beach’s ‘Antigone’ Gives New Voice to the Women In this contemporary adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy, playwright Kate…