cover image Rebel Without Applause

Rebel Without Applause

Jay Landesman. Paragon House Publishers, $10.95 (286pp) ISBN 978-1-55778-289-2

In an ``irreverent'' memoir, the founder-editor of the magazine Neurotica , wherein many Beat writers made their original appearances, here offers what PW called ``breezy but sloppily edited recollections of his lifelong avoidance of the obvious and search for the unexpected.'' (May)