Research Catalog

Title

Area code 212 with 718,646,917,516, and a brief foray to 518 : New York days, New York nights / Tama Janowitz.

Author

Janowitz, Tama.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

xii, 349 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

A collection of the author's observations of New York City recounts her experience at Andy Warhol's 1980s blind date club, her brief encounter with celebrity as an extra in a ZZ Top video, and her failure of an IQ test.

Alternative Title

Area code two one two

Subjects

• Biographies
• 1900-1999
• History
• New York (N.Y.) > Biography
• Janowitz, Tama
• City and town life > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
• New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Note

• Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2002.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• "Another day almost over" / Phyllis Janowitz -- Performance art -- Looks good on paper -- New York marriage -- Commencement speech at the community college of Beaver County -- Style -- White, single, and female, in New York City -- Mothers -- And baby makes four -- New York child -- New York jungle -- Willow, aged four and a half -- miracle -- Eat your peas -- Why I'm a little-dog person -- New York squirrel -- City squirrel no. 2 -- dog without a personality -- difference between dogs and babies -- catlady -- Ferrets -- Obsessed with ferrets -- trip to the veterinarian -- Riverside park -- New York birdman -- Queen of the Brooklyn rodeo -- Raped by butterflies -- monarch in Manhattan -- kangaroos at the zoo -- Harassment -- Sex, unable to -- My peculiar affliction -- Psychological testing -- visit to Bellevue Hospital -- Old people -- Maybe I am, maybe not -- Gluttony
• Food chain -- supermarket, part two -- dinner party -- Salad -- City water -- New York wrestling restaurant -- evening at the very fine Pierre Hotel -- black hole in the donut -- Hors d'Oeuvres -- Bar and grill -- Durian fruit -- Tajine -- Why I love New York -- heck of a town -- city dweller's daily writing routine -- I was an elderly teenage extra in a video for MTV -- Art in the early '80s -- Andy, '85 -- story of publishing as told by an author -- Summer of excess -- Big city makeover -- Manhattan manners -- Some New York apartments -- Noise in New York -- New York media -- New York bank -- literary mafia -- Pearl river -- Net worth -- economy of New York -- Movies -- Cross-town, cross-culture -- same but not the same -- New York City, one more time -- Looking out -- Andy -- Something that still brings tears when I think about it -- subways
• Assignment from the New York Times Op-Ed page

ISBN

0312320620

LCCN

2004052476^^

OCLC

• 55877818
• SCSB-10574054

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library