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- A one-time member of the New York glitterati, frequent Page Six fodder, and best-selling author whose prose chronicled the social mores and idiosyncrasies of the downtown art scene, Janowitz has risen (or, in this case, descended) from seclusion in upstate New York to debut her first memoir, Scream, appropriately subtitled with the nouns “glamour” and “dysfunction.”
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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.
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...
Aug 16, 2016 · Unlike the Hollywood counterpart, whose membership roster seems to vary (Wikipedia still can’t decide), the literary version was made up of exactly three writers: two men ( Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis) and only one woman, Tama Janowitz.
Tama Janowitz is an American novelist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of Pages magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack" authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis , Mark Lindquist and Jay McInerney .
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Oct 10, 2013 · Janowitz, like the other Brat Packers, has written deeply satirical work: hilarious and dark, scathing yet somehow forgiving, and set over three decades in a New York of stark brutality that’s a...
Oct 10, 2003 · Tama Janowitz was born in 1957 in San Francisco, California. She was the daughter of a pysychiatrist father and a poet and literature professor mother. Tama’s parents divorced when she was 10 and she was then raised by her mother.
Aug 19, 2016 · The calamity-prone author Tama Janowitz employs an opposite strategy, focusing on those she believes are out to get her and nurturing a gimlet-eyed loathing for her fellow man.
