Lisa Jane Persky
An early participant in the CBGB's scene, Lisa Jane Persky was a founding photographer/writer of the New York Rocker. Since then, her work as a journalist, photographer and collage artist has appeared in L.A.Weekly, Mojo, Q, Uncut, and The Los Angeles Times among others. Her fiction first appeared in Bomb magazine.
In between, Lisa has been an actress on, off and off off Broadway and in numerous films and television shows.
She is a founding member and Editor-at-Large of the Los Angeles Review of Books. See her photo website for more details.
http://markhanauer.com/
7 articles
List of articles in the library
Mumps ...And Other Childhood Diseases
Profile by Lisa Persky, New York Rocker, February 1976
IN THE MUSIC biz, even on the chic Bowery, many a band are slain in the taking. An attempt on the life of one band ...
Profile and Interview by Lisa Jane Persky, New York Rocker, March 1976
IN SPITE OF the following reputation, mainly one of an uncommon interest in the female species and predicted guano in the living room, one finds ...
Interview by Lisa Jane Persky, New York Rocker, May 1976
Suicide Note: "The thought of suicide is a great consolation; with the help of it, one has got through many a bad night."– F. Nietzsche ...
The Ramones: Are the Ramones, or Is the Ramone?
Interview by Lisa Jane Persky, New York Rocker, September 1976
PUNK IS A word described in many dictionaries as that which is used to light fireworks; and in this case it is. Eager to pin ...
Jonathan Richman: Town Hall, New York NY
Live Review by Lisa Persky, New York Rocker, December 1976
AFTER AN almost unmentionable flight into vaudeville with the opening acts (a magician and a juggler) who suffered limitless abuse from the audience, Jonathan Richman ...
The Sex Pistols, Television: Pimp-Rock?
Comment by Lisa Jane Persky, New York Rocker, June 1977
EVERYTHING happens to us all so quickly these days that even before something is completed, it is dated, labels must be attached for definition and ...
Rodney Bingenheimer: A Child of the Myth
Profile and Interview by Lisa Jane Persky, L.A. Weekly, May 1979
KEEPING MY fingers on the minimal pulse of the musical movement in L.A. which, gratefully, is growing, I cannot ignore one of its prime gardeners. ...
back to LIBRARY
