Writer and publisher who mixed with the Beat generation and the Soho set
The 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 moved from the Colony Room club to the French pub to Gerry's bar to the Coach and Horses (where he was banned for a while) and back to the Groucho. However, he always had his wits about him and had a shrewd eye for publishing opportunities that went all the way back to his early years in New York,...
The 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 moved from the Colony Room club to the French pub to Gerry's bar to the Coach and Horses (where he was banned for a while) and back to the Groucho. However, he always had his wits about him and had a shrewd eye for publishing opportunities that went all the way back to his early years in New York,...
- 2/26/2011
- by Yoko Ono
- The Guardian - Film News
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