Ferment Magazine
Editor: Roy Lisker, PhD
"...It is my deepest conviction that few human creations can approach the quality and power of those produced by the true "independent" thinker.Your publication is a shining example of such"...Bob McGrail, professor of mathematics, Bard College.
This website is made possible through the
active support and encouragement of
Jacob Smullyan and family:
Anne-Marie, Benjamin, Jeremy and Gabriel
(These names overlap but are not co-extensive with the persons in the picture)
Financial Statement 1955-2005
Notice:I will be heading to Europe on Monday, August 26. Two days in Dublin to be followed by 16 days or so in the south of France, renewing ties and reviving memories of all my favorite places. Then Paris for a week, from the 13th to the 20th. My address there will be Hotel Picard 26 rue de Picardie - 75003 Paris FRANCE Tél: +33(0)1 48 87 53 82.
After a visit to England, September 20-30 (thereabouts), I return to France for the month of October and a month-long course in Elementary Particles at the Institut Poincaré.
On the evening of October 26th, starting at 7:30 PM, there will be a reading at Carr's Pub, near the Tuileries, by English-speaking actors living in France, of my play "Hamlet's Psychiatrist". A satire on 400 years of 'interpretations' of Hamlet it is, in my opinion, most sophomoric and quite funny.
Musical Compositions 1967-1976
Language Compositions:
A Sound Poetry CD
Listen To Excerpts at
CD Baby
40 narratives from 5 decades:
Short Stories
To purchase books of these stories go to the
Ferment Press Catalogue
3 Complete Novels in .doc and .pdf formats
Novels
Mathematics Consultant for the Arts and Humanities
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This photograph of me was taken in the winter of 2000. As president of the Middletown North End Action Team. I was doing my part in cleaning up the grounds of what has since become the neighborhood's pride and joy:
The North End Community Garden.
A report on the 8-year struggle of the North End Action Team to obtain decent living conditions for the residents of Middletown's North End, may now be read at
History of the North End Housing Initiative
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Updated July 29,2008
- The account of the search for and visit with Alexandre Grothendieck in May and June of 1988 has been placed on Ferment Magazine. It can be read at:
Quest for Grothendieck,88
- A new research paper
Ordinal MapsÊhas been placed on Ferment Magazine.It describes a way of classifying general functions on the real line by association with dynamical systems acting on the sequence of countable transfinite ordinals
Go to Ordinal Maps (doc);or
Ordinal Maps (pdf)
Quest for Grothendieck,88
Go to Ordinal Maps (doc);or Ordinal Maps (pdf)
Paris in Autumn
Visit the Ferment Press Catalogue for information about my Memoir and other publications . Before it was removed s few weeks ago, the Memoir was the most popular site on Ferment Magazine. It can now be purchased for $25.
A novel, written in 1972 and published originally in French, has been uploaded into Ferment Magazine. Recently rewritten, revised and edited, "Getting That Meal Ticket" is a savage satire on the academic mentality in the United States in the 50's and 60's, its fads and fashions, pedantry, opportunism and folly. It is also the story of its hapless hero, Aleph Cantor, as he steers a course between Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy, between Portnoy and Holden Caulfield in his quest for truth and deliverance from madness. Click on the link Novels for .doc and .pdf versions
3 recent editorials
April 2008
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- Roy Lisker
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Middletown, CT 06457
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Ferment
1983-2004
The origins of the newsletter Ferment , of which Ferment Magazine.Org is the continuation, may be traced to a Greek restaurant in Boulder, Colorado in 1983. The restaurant's owners may have been upset by the fact that I was sitting there for two hours over a Gyros sandwich going through possible names for the new publication.
Ferment ceased publication in January, 2005. Its creative energy has been transferred to this website.The newsletter may be rehabilitated at some future date.
Ferment's editor received a profile in the magazine Commonweal
March 9th,2001:
"Stop the Presses"
All back issues of
Ferment Volume I-XVII, 1983-2004
are available from the editor for $5 apiece.Go to
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