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Author: Lisa Jane Persky

Lisa Jane Persky is founding staff member of both the New York Rocker and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her work as journalist, photographer and artist has appeared in Mojo, Vulture and The Pitchfork Review among others. Her fiction has appeared in BOMB and has been anthologized in Eclectica: Best Fiction Volume 1. Lisa is also an actress who has appeared on, off and off off Broadway. 30 years of her film and television work is listed on the IMDB. In her spare time she collects chickens found in literature at chickensinliterature.com and is writing a memoir of growing up Bohemian in the years between the Beat and the Blank Generations.

REPO YOUR ENTHUSIASM (20)

By: Lisa Jane Persky

Francis Ford Coppola’s RUMBLE FISH

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KLAATU YOU (31)

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As quickly as we glean the gist it is more and less forgotten.

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CONVOY YOUR ENTHUSIASM (6)

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A matchless validation of the concept of karmic comeuppance.

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HERMENAUTIC TAROT (55)

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Lisa Jane Persky on EXPECTATIONS

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KLUTE YOUR ENTHUSIASM (23)

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THE LONG GOODBYE

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Chicken Lit (10)

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Rachel Kushner’s THE FLAMETHROWERS

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Chicken Lit (9)

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Saul Bellow’s SEIZE THE DAY

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Chicken Lit (8)

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Charles Portis’s NORWOOD

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Chicken Lit (7)

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David Foster Wallace’s EVERYTHING AND MORE

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Chicken Lit (6)

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT

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Chicken Lit (5)

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Zora Neale Hurston’s THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

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Chicken Lit (4)

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Ken Kesey’s ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST

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Chicken Lit (3)

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Gertrude Stein’s TENDER BUTTONS

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Chicken Lit (2)

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Malcolm Lowry’s UNDER THE VOLCANO

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Chicken Lit (1)

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Chuck Palahniuk’s FIGHT CLUB

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