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Russ Lippitt

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born

February 05, 1977 in New Jersey, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.leftbrainwritings.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Young Adult

influences

Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Howard Zinn

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April 2010

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Russ Lippitt hails from the lower class, project homes of New Jersey’s finest. Raised by a drug-dealing, Hell’s Angel biker he called Dad and a pole-dancing junkie, his future was almost written in stone.
Through writing Russ had found his escape from reality by creating a world worse than his own. In his teen years he had often bumped head’s with the law, so naturally inspired by Punk Rock and Anarchist views, he set out to become a rule-breaking writer, dedicating himself to learning the rules just to deconstruct them more fully and artistically. To this end, he shipped himself off to The Academy of Arts College to polish his writing talent. It was there where he began to write his first novel, Lion’s Share which was later published by Rav...more

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Lion's Share

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Slamming Circle of Solidarity (Literature & Fiction)

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Description: Short story for Anti-Hippie Magazine

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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

by Naomi Klein

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“I couldn't hack it in Hollywood, my writing's wasn't bad enough.”
― Russ Lippitt

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“If you are searching for someone to hate, try looking in the mirror.”
― Russ Lippitt

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“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
― John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

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“If you are searching for someone to hate, try looking in the mirror.”
― Russ Lippitt

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“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: critics , literary-criticism , reviewers , writing

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“I couldn't hack it in Hollywood, my writing's wasn't bad enough.”
― Russ Lippitt

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