Area Code 212 New York Days, New York Nights

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.