Cosmo Landesman is a journalist

Journalist

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 and editor

Editing

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 and son of Jay

Jay Landesman

Irving Ned Landesman was an American publisher, nightclub proprietor and writer long resident in London.-With the Beats:...

 and Fran Landesman

Fran Landesman

Fran Landesman was an American lyricist and poet.-Early life:Born Frances Deitsch in New York City, her father was a dress manufacturer, her mother was a journalist...

. With his then wife Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill

Julie Burchill is an English writer and journalist. Beginning as a writer for the New Musical Express at the age of 17, she has written for newspapers such as The Sunday Times and The Guardian. She is a self-declared "militant feminist". She has several times been involved in legal action...

, he set up the magazine

Magazine

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 The Modern Review. The magazine eventually folded, and Burchill left him for Charlotte Raven

Charlotte Raven

Charlotte Raven is a British author and journalist.She studied English at Manchester University. As a Labour Club activist there in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was part of a successful campaign to oust then student union communications officer Derek Draper, though she subsequently had a...

, one of the magazine's female interns.

After the experience Landesman quit the UK in 1995 to work in New York

New York

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. He was one of the contributors to Vanity Fair's Cool Britannia

Cool Britannia

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 issue.

He now reviews films for The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times (UK)

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. His memoir Starstruck (2008) concerns his unconventional family, his awkwardness about them and eventual reconciliation.