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Tama Janowitz

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April 12, 1957 in San Francisco, California, The United States

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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.

Born in San Francisco, California to a psychiatrist father and literature professor mother who divorced when she was ten, Janowitz moved to the East Coast of the United States to attend Barnard College and the Columbia University School of the Arts and started writing about life in New York City, where she had settled down.

She socialized with Andy Warhol and became well-known in New York's literary and social circles. Her 1986 collection of short stories, Slaves of New York brought her wider fame. Slaves of New York...more

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Average rating: 3.29 · 1,512 ratings · 141 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Slaves of New York 3.41 avg rating — 786 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions	My rating:
	A Certain Age 3.02 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Cannibal in Manhattan 3.07 avg rating — 144 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group 3.39 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Peyton Amberg: A Novel 3.19 avg rating — 84 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	American Dad 3.39 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	My rating:
	By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee 3.25 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	They Is Us 2.95 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Area Code 212 3.20 avg rating — 35 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Hear That 2.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“It was strange how most of the time we got along so well, but then there were these periods when it was a good things the knives were in the drawer and not out on display.”
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“I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it.”
― Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

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“...and it made me uncomfortable the way this guy was eating a scrawny chicken wing and looking at me. You know, I just wanted to tell him to knock it off and be a person.”
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