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Area code 212 with 718,646,917,516, and a brief foray to 518 : New York days, New York nights / Tama Janowitz.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Janowitz, Tama.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City and town life.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Manners and customs.
- City and town life--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Janowitz, Tama.
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 349 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Other Title:
- Area code two one two
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- Welcome to the Wonderful World of Tama Janowitz, one of New York's wittiest social chroniclers. Area Code 212 is filled with idiosyncratic delights and oddities, including her hilarious account of Andy Warhol's 1980s 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 observing the Twin Towers come down from her apartment roof, on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies, the outer boroughs, big-hair days and bad-hair days. sAbove all, the humor and insights of Area Code 212 will appeal not only to all of those who live in New York City but also to those from around the country who have a fascination with what it is like to thrive in the urban mecca. sSelf-deprecating, funny, and touching, Area Code 212 is an irresistible collection of essays.
- Contents:
- "Another Day Almost Over" / Phyllis Janowitz xiii
- Part 1 Family Life 1
- Performance Art 3
- Looks Good on Paper 8
- A New York Marriage 19
- Commencement Speech at the Community College of Beaver County 21
- Style 29
- White, Single, and Female, in New York City 34
- Mothers 39
- And Baby Makes Four 42
- The New York Child 49
- The New York Jungle 50
- Willow, Aged Four and a Half 61
- A Miracle 62
- Eat Your Peas 63
- Part 2 Animals 67
- Why I'm a Little-Dog Person 69
- A New York Squirrel 74
- City Squirrel No. 2 75
- The Dog Without a Personality 78
- The Difference Between Dogs and Babies 85
- The Catlady 89
- Ferrets 92
- Obsessed with Ferrets 96
- A Trip to the Veterinarian 105
- Riverside Park 107
- The New York Birdman 109
- Queen of the Brooklyn Rodeo 113
- Raped by Butterflies 117
- A Monarch in Manhattan 120
- The Kangaroos at the Zoo 122
- Part 3 Breakthroughs in Science and Medicine 125
- Harassment 127
- Sex, Unable to 130
- My Peculiar Affliction 134
- Psychological Testing 136
- A Visit to Bellevue Hospital 138
- Old People 145
- Maybe I Am, Maybe Not 147
- Part 4 Food 149
- Gluttony 151
- The Food Chain 154
- The Supermarket, Part Two 159
- The Dinner Party 161
- Salad 167
- City Water 168
- New York Wrestling Restaurant 170
- An Evening at the Very Fine Pierre Hotel 178
- The Black Hole in the Donut 184
- Hors d'Oeuvres 190
- Bar and Grill 195
- Durian Fruit 201
- Tajine 205
- Part 5 City Life 211
- Why I Love New York 213
- A Heck of a Town 215
- The City Dweller's Daily Writing Routine 222
- I Was an Elderly Teenage Extra in a Video for MTV 224
- Art in the Early '80s 229
- Andy, '85 240
- The Story of Publishing as Told by an Author 247
- Summer of Excess 249
- Big City Makeover 256
- Manhattan Manners 263
- Some New York Apartments 269
- Noise in New York 277
- New York Media 280
- A New York Bank 283
- The Literary Mafia 288
- Pearl River 290
- Net Worth 293
- The Economy of New York 297
- Movies 308
- Cross-town, Cross-culture 312
- The Same But Not the Same 315
- New York City, One More Time 322
- Looking Out 332
- Andy 335
- Something That Still Brings Tears When I Think About It 337
- The Subways 339
- Assignment from the New York Times Op-Ed Page 345
- After 9/11 347.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2002.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0312320620
- OCLC:
- 55877818
- Online:
- Publisher description
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