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Apr 16, 2024 · By Elwin Cotman. April 16, 2024. Exploring the discount bin outside Dog Eared Books, I discover Slaves of New York by Tama Janowitz, which is not, I learn, a historical text about the slave market on Wall Street. The cover features a man and woman photographed like Warhol silkscreens.
Tama Janowitz (born April 12, 1956) is an American novelist and a short story writer. She is often referenced as one of the main "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney. Her novel-in-stories Slaves of New York (1986) was adapted into the movie of the same name in 1989.
Aug 16, 2016 · Tama became a bona fide celebrity after the runaway success of her second book, 1986’s Slaves of New York, a collection of interconnected stories unfolding in the ’80s art scene. The book was entertaining, the writing confident, and the author exotically beautiful and eccentrically glamorous.
Aug 19, 2016 · Tama Janowitz’s new memoir, “Scream,” reveals how markedly her life has changed since her “it girl” days.
Tama Janowitz is best known for her short-story collection Slaves of New York, the first such collection to become a best-seller since Philip Roth’s Goodby, Columbus earned that...
Jan 1, 1986 · Slaves of New York. Tama Janowitz. 3.51. 3,677 ratings200 reviews. A coterie of artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers are all aspiring towards fame and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.
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Oct 10, 2003 · Slaves of New York was a book of short stories focusing on artists, prostitutes and other city dwellers. This book was thought to be somewhat biographical, based on the author’s experiences of living in the artistic world and Soho area of New York City in the 1980s.
