This image is the cover for the book Rebel Without Applause

Rebel Without Applause

Jay Landesman recalls the America of the 1950s and the performers and writers he knew. His magazine Neurotica published Allen Ginsberg, Leonard Bernstein, and others, and he set up the Midwestern cabaret theatre where Lenny Bruce, Barbara Streisand, Woody Allen, and others were spotted.

Jay Landesman

Irving Ned Landesman was an American publisher, nightclub proprietor, writer, and long-time resident in London.

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