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 Area Code 212 - Tama Janowitz
 Area Code 212 - Tama Janowitz ... homeless person on the corner yelled to me, 'Hey, honey - you having a bad hair day?' Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, New York's wittiest and deader than deadpan social scene 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; and testing as mentally retarded on an IQ test. Janowitz gives us her unique low-down on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies and Brooklyn, big hair and bad hair days - and survival tips for real life girls. Self-deprecating, funny and often touching, Area Code 212 is a sparkling and deeply amusing collection.Newest Review: ... Ferret. She even includes a speech she gave to a University graduation that made very little sense to anyone, herself ... more ... included. The editing is sometimes a bit haphazard and a couple of the stories repeat themselves in slightly different ways - such as her account of going to China to adopt her daughter or the hobo on the street who accused her of having a 'bad hair life' rather than a bad hair day.
The articles range from the surreal (miscarrying in the toilets of the Museum of Modern Art whilst those around her thought she'd slashed her wrists in one of the cubicles) through to the ridiculous (her desperate attempts to illegally acquire ...more |
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Area Code 212 - Tama Janowitz: Smuggling Ferrets and Partying with Warhol - a New York Life (957 words)
by - written on 04/03/08 (Very useful, 102 readings)
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Tama Janowitz is a favourite of mine. Not someone I'd rush out to buy but if I see her on a shelf in a second hand bookshop then the book's likely to be going home with me. I love her titles in particular - there's "The Male Cross-dresser Support Group" and "A Cannibal in Manhattan" which are both favourites of mine so even though I don't really like books of essays, the strength of the Janowitz promise was enough to draw me to this book. And the good thing about a book of essays is that hopefully nobody can accuse me of giving away too much of the 'plot' because there obviously isn't one. 'Area Code 212?' I hear you ask 'what's that about?' ... Read the complete review
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