Jay Landesman obituary

Writer and publisher who mixed with the Beat generation and the Soho setThe death of the writer and publisher Jay Landesman, aged 91, marks the demise of one of the last links to the Beat, hip and cool roots that inform modern culture. For many budding Beat writers, Neurotica, the magazine Jay founded in the US in the 1940s, was the first place they saw their names in print.In the 1980s and 90s, as a louche habitué of the Groucho Club, London, Jay fell naturally into that Soho routine that mo...

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