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.

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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

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 9,2008

  • An account of a recent sojourn in France and England, September 2007 to January 2008, can be read at

    • 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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    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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