LISA JANE PERSKY

LJP: a brief history

Greenwich Village: street kid, sensitive ass-kicker.

A patient zero CBGB’s: poetry readings; music; co-founder/writer/photographer New York Rocker.

Personal assistant to couturier Charles James.

Underground actress: from La Mama E.T.C. (as HM Koutoukas’s “World’s Most Perfect Teenager”) to The Truck and Warehouse Theater (as Tom Eyen’s “Innocent Raped by The System.”)

Gone Hollywood: gangster moll, road-tripping showtune-singer, wise-cracking detective, snot-nosed cheerleader, chill gal-pal; wife of demons, etc. as seen in The Great Santini, Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park, The Cotton Club, When Harry Met Sally and more, more, more. See IMDB

Turned 40 (#metoo): Uncomfortable with high visibility and lacking party gene, retrenched to words, pictures, visual essay.

Founding editor/art director, Los Angeles Review of Books.

Journalism/photography/art/fiction: Maggot Brain, Mojo, Uncut, The Pitchfork Review, The Iowa Review, Los Angeles Times, Fortean Times, Journal of Popular Music Studies; Bomb; Eclectica.

Project Manager/Curator: Los Angeles Loteria, Aardvark Letterpress.

Enjoying mid-life and beyond: Photographing the changing landscape of cities and deteriorated towns, working on autobio about growing up Boho in NYC between the Beat and Blank Generations, exploiting my own story and photo archive in books, magazines, on panels; author/portrait photography, editing words and taking photos for private clients.

Greenwich Village booster. I miss my dead friends. Dogs before cats. Cake before pie. Prog Bitch.

Photo of LJP by Alex Currie