Tama Janowitz

Slaves of New York (Bloomsbury Classic Reads)

Schiavi di New York

Bonnie Jo Campbell

Cat Warren

Beth Kephart

Diane Lefer

Carol Guess

Sybil Baker

Ethel Rohan

Kim Chinquee

Kathleen Rooney

Kathi Appelt

Sherrie Flick

Victoria Redel

Robin Black

Deb Olin Unferth

Kathy Fish

Molly Gaudry

Debra Di Blasi

Xu Xi

Ellen Meister

Jennifer Steil

Amina Gautier

Jo-Ann Mapson

Elaine Chiew

Tara Laskowski

Kristine Ong Muslim

Natasha Saje

Roberta Allen

Susanna Sonnenberg

Pamela Painter

Jillian Sullivan

Nancy Stohlman

Liza Gardner Walsh

Tara Campbell

Patricia McConnell

Lisa Kastner

Ellen Boscov

Kristin Burcham

Sara Chansarkar

Mare Chapman

Watsuki Harrington

Tara Masih

Robin OIivera

Alina Pleskova

Zalisa Rabin

Trisha Rodriguez

C. J. Spataro

Wendy Stetson

Chelsea Stickle

Julia Strayer

Girija Tripp

Fifty-two writers responded in exactly 100 words to the fine art photography of Meg Boscov to create an anthology of healing visions.

An Anthology of Micro Writing and Fine Art Photography

Healing Visions

Stories

Slaves of New York

«Un’avvincente carrellata delle scorribande di una Madame Bovary dei giorni nostri.»Publshers WeeklyPeyton Amberg è stata una moglie infedele. Ha passato anni saltando da un letto all’altro, in cerca di un appagamento che sa spiegarsi neppure lei. Il sesso è da sempre il suo solo modo di entrare in comunicazione con gli uomini, anche se questi non le hanno mai usato molti riguardi. Ma Peyton adesso è diventata una donna infelice. Ora che la bellezza, la giovinezza e il fascino sono passati, cosa le rimane? Quello che state per leggere è il racconto della sua vita a ritroso, delle gioie e dei dolori vissuti da una donna che ha abbandonato la fedeltà al vincolo matrimoniale e ha deciso di vivere la sua vita fino in fondo. Uno sguardo sul passato torbido e burrascoso di una Madame Bovary dei nostri tempi, un racconto crudo, divertente, piccante, sarcastico.«Troverà un pubblico favorevole in ogni angolo del mondo moderno.»Irish Independent«Uno sguardo penetrante.»New York Magazine«Uno dei libri più divertenti che ho letto, e il più triste... Questo è un romanzo sulle classi sociali e il sesso in America: crudo, rude, sconvolgente, e immensamente vivificante.»Fay Weldon, The Guardian«Una scrittrice di notevole talento.»The New York Observer«Malignamente divertente come sempre... le sue intuizioni sugli uomini e le donne e i ruoli a cui appartengono sono spaventosamente acute.»Observer«Riassumendo... Janowitz alleggerisce la disperazione con un accattivante ironico distacco.»Financial TimesTama Janowitzsi è imposta nella seconda metà degli anni Ottanta come una delle scrittrici statunitensi più rappresentative. Ha pubblicato numerosi racconti su riviste prestigiose come «The New Yorker», «Paris Review», «Spin», «Bomb», «Vogue» e «Interview». Dalla sua raccolta di racconti Schiavi di New York ha tratto una sceneggiatura per un film diretto da James Ivory, interpretato fra gli altri da Steve Buscemi. Vive a Brooklyn con il marito e la figlia.

Il diario erotico di Peyton Amberg

Kangaroos in the Kitchen?

Shalom Auslander

Yehuda Amichai

Susann Cokal

Paisley Rekdal

Dangerous Territory

Broad Street 1. 1

'Janowitz is a fearless writer. Her details are quirky, her language is lean and her sentences sprint along with deceptive ease. The protagonists in her stories share with her a shyness and a sense of always being out of place. Although they try in earnest to fit in, they put on the wrong clothes or say the wrong thing or fail to grasp the subtle messages other people send their way' NEW YORK TIMES 'The shrewd observation, the skewed invention ... are the gifts of a singular talent' Jay McInerney

"In her new novel, Tama Janowitz now targets a young woman growing ever restless in her marriage and ever hopeful that the next bed will produce someone more exciting. As she moves from man to man, Peyton Amberg slowly but surely loses her youthfulness, her good looks, even her sanity as her paramours become rougher and the sex more dangerous." "A savvy riff on the classic figure of Madame Bovary, Peyton Amberg is a caustic satire of contemporary marriage as it is undermined by free-floating lust and the exploits of a woman yearning for fulfillment outside of a rigid societal structure."--BOOK JACKET.

A Novel

Peyton Amberg

American Dad is a suburban-family version of Tama Janowitz's satirical, hilarious short stories in Slave of New York.

American Dad

From the author of Slaves of New York and The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group, this satire in the all-too-rare genre of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One tells a compelling story of the sex lives of people and invertebrates at the end of America's 20th century.

By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee

In her first nonfiction collection, the bestselling author of "Slaves of New York" reveals her fresh and edgy observations on New York City in these self-deprecating, funny, and touching essays.

New York Days, New York Nights

Area Code 212

Oryx & Crake meets Douglas Coupland. An unforgettable vision of the future of America. Years from now America finds itself split between the rich and the poor. The haves live in luxury within the small regions that remain unpolluted while the have-nots inhabit a toxic suburbia full of terrorism, crime and genetic mutations. Perhaps not all that different from today then? They Is Us tells the story of one family from the poor side as they go about their daily lives. Julie has a job as a summer intern at an animal laboratory. She can't resist taking home the discarded mutants and her house is filled with genetic cast offs. Her mother, Murielle, has kicked out her stepfather and now, seemingly from nowhere, finds herself subject to the attentions of multi-millionaire businessman A.J.M. Bishrop. Bishrop is only dating Murielle because he wants to get Julie's underage sister Tahnee into bed. Just your typical American family story. Set against a backdrop of increasingly invasive technology, growing pollution and the President of the USA's impending gay marriage (to be broadcast live across the nation) They Is Us features a cast of unforgettable characters that will stick in your mind long after you finish the book. Tama Janowitz has written a prophetic novel which is funny, and frequently hilarious, but is so uncannily believable that it is chilling to read. This really could be the future.

A Cautionary Horror Story

They is Us

In this New York Times Notable Book of the Year, the author of A Cannibal in Manhattan offers readers a hilarious romp through the curiosities of motherhood, sexual identity, and family vaules in the 1990s. A little boy follows a single woman home from a pizza parlour and works his way into her heart.

The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group

Peyton Amberg is a young woman growing ever restless in her marriage, and ever hopeful that the next bed will produce someone more exciting. As she moves from man to man, she slowly but surely loses her youthfulness, her good looks, even her sanity, as her paramours become rougher and the sex more brutal. A savvy riff on the classic figure of Madame Bovary, Peyton Amberg is a caustic and brilliant satire of contemporary marriage, as it charts the free-floating lust and exploits of a woman yearning for fulfillment outside of rigid societal structure. Tama Janowitz's Peyton Amberg is nasty, funny, jaundiced, sarcastic, searingly honest, and mesmerizing from beginning to end.

In her first picture book, renowned novelist, Tama's wild and wonderful imagination takes flight--There's no telling what type of creepy creature will come around the corner next! With witty illustrations by Tracy Dockwray which will tickle the readers and keep them guessing - all the way to the surprising end!

Hear That?

Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, New York's wittiest social chronicler. Littered with idiosyncratic delights and oddities, here are hilarious stories of her eighties blind date club with Andy Warhol; her brief moment of celebrity as an elderly teenage extra in a ZZ Top video; the day her sweat turned green, and testing as mentally retarded on an IQ test. Alongside revealing stories of New York life, its parties, its restaurants and fashion, Janowitz gives us her unique low-down on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies and Brooklyn, big hair and bad hair days. Self-deprecating, funny and often touching, AREA CODE 212 is a sparkling and unputdownable collection.

Area Code 212 is filled with idiosyncratic delights and oddities of New York's wittiest social chroniclers, Tama Janowitz. Included in this book is her hilarious account of Andy Warhol's eighties blind date club; her brief moment of celebrity as an elderly teenage extra in a ZZ Top video; the day she tested mentally retarded on an IQ test; and many other revealing tales of New York life, including its parties, its restaurants, and its fashion. Janowitz gives us her unique lowdown on her 1990s conversion from Manhattan to Brooklyn, on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies, the outer boroughs, big hair days, and bad hair days.

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