Jill Johnston

Author and Critic May 17, 1929 - September 18, 2010

It is quite possible that Jill Johnston is one of the most important, radical, and innovative writers of her time.

Gregory Battcock

As Jill was a pioneer not just in dance criticism but in 20th century journalism and literature, dance analogies might be too limiting. . . . That said, as a dance critic she was our Merce Cunningham. Just as dance lost the last of its pioneering giants when Cunningham passed away last year, dance criticism has now lost the last of its giants.

Paul Ben-Itzak, Publisher, Dance Insider

The reputation of this rare primary source document [Marmalade Me, reissued] of the 1960s performance scene in New York has unquestionably grown since its original publication. It stands as a portrait of a pivotal decade in radical American art criticism and art.

Janice L. Ross

Johnston comes on like a flood, vivacious, mile-a-minute, with an uncontrollable eloquence.

New York Review of Books

Her legacy is stunning in it breadth, scope and social relevance. A longtime writer for the Village Voice, an author and cultural commentator, Johnston was always years ahead of her time. The literary world has lost a giant. . . . Time will prove that her literary legacy is unsurpassed.

Georgianne Nienaber, The Huffington Post

Someday, whenever the tangled histories of the interdisciplinary sixties art scene, of new journalism and experimental female/feminist autobiographical writing, or of lesbians and the avant-garde, get written, Jill Johnstons life and work will receive key billing. . . . Johnston was an originator. Her constant experimentation with language emerged from a genuine effort to record and communicate new and disruptive art forms, social realities, and states of consciousness.

Liz Kotz

Jill Johnston’s mind is one of the great female treasures. She doesn’t simply set forth her insides; on the contrary she delivers the near and distant complexities of her thought in language dressed to kill.

Laura Shapiro

Johnston’s legacy likely will loom large . . .

Julie Bolcer, Advocate.com

At Sea On Land is a wild ride, at times comic, erudite, seductive, hard-headed, intensely political, and always written into the page. In its wrap-around shot at combining the lands of her birth and upbringing, respectively the UK and the USA, this is a Johnston classic.

Victor Bockris

England's Child	$27.95
It is a superb biography of the author’s father, Cyril F. Johnston, a foremost English bellfounder in the earlier half of the 20th century, who helped introduce the Carillon—the largest yet least known musical instrument in the world—to North America. It is also an erudite study of the Carillon, its history, its renaissance in tuning, and the dramas of competition in both English and American markets between Cyril Johnston and his compatriot rivals.
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An Informal Get-together
May 17, 2011
from 5:30 to 8:30 PM

Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway, New York NY
At 7 pm Ingrid will read
a letter from Jill's unfinished book:
Letters to the Living and the Dead:
An Epistolary Memoir
Refreshments will be served

Deep Listening Institute's

Tribute to Jill Johnston

Deep Listening Space
77 Cornell Street, Suite 303
Kingston, NY 12401

This event can be viewed live
by a donation of $25 to benefit
The Jill Johnston Literary Archive
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Memorial for Jill Johnston Saturday, January 29, 2011 from 1 to 5 PM Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Sq. South New York NY
England's Child
$27.95

Appendix 2 of EC is

a list of carillons by G&J/

Cyril F. Johnston.