Truth and Fantasy

Creativity is an endless parade of possibilities its not a goal Joram Piatigorsky reflects in this diverse collection of essays. Whether writing about the brain tennis a bookstore in Iceland old friends marriage death snow movies or the notion of creativity itself he joins the parade with enthusiasm and unbounded curiosity.-Bill OSullivan senior managing editor Washingtonian magazineTruth and Fantasy hits the mark on so many levels -- whether conveying the wisdom of bees or the meaning of fatherhood or the immense power of silence. With a disarming curiosity and warmth Piatigorskys observations always emerge plainly sometimes starkly in the distance leaving the reader with a precise and surprising understanding of what is being seen - and even what is not seen. -James Mathews author of Last Known PositionIn Truth and Fantasy: Essays Joram Piatigorsky provides widespread insights on numerous topics always with a nod to imagination...These well-written concise essays weave together his thoughts on complementary themes from his extraordinary creative life. -Stephen S. Lash Chairman Emeritus: Christies...Piatigorsky is never dogmatic but rather provides the reader with a passport to consideration of a topic from that individuals personal context. These analyses of lifes landscape stay with you long after you put the book down. -Margaret McFall-Ngai Professor and Director University of Hawaii at Mānoa member National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.Through concurrent lifetimes dedicated to athletics research collecting Inuit and African art travel and writing the scientist facilitates our investigation of a life lived large. Then the writer takes over proposing ways we can weave the truths we have discovered into the fabrics of our own lives. -John Houston Inuit art dealer and filmmaker producer of Atautsikut / Leaving None Behind During his 50-year research career at the National Institutes of Health Joram Piatigorsky has published some 300 scientific articles and a book Gene Sharing and Evolution (Harvard University Press 2007) lectured worldwide received numerous research awards including the prestigious Helen Keller Prize for vision research served on scientific editorial boards advisory boards and funding panels and trained a generation of scientists. Presently an emeritus scientist and writer he collects Inuit art is Vice-Chairperson on the Board of Directors of The Writers Center in Bethesda. He blogs at his website (Joramp.com) has published personal essays in Lived Experience and Adelaide Literary Magazine a novel Jellyfish Have Eyes (IPBooks 2014; Adelaide Books 2020). He has published the following books with the present publisher Adelaide Books: a memoir The Speed of Dark (2018) two collections of short stories The Open Door and Other Tales of Love and Yearning (2019) and Notes Going Underground (2020). He has two sons five grandchildren and lives with his wife in Bethesda Maryland.