Peyton Amberg is a travel agent who really gets around—in more ways than one. In her latest no-holds-barred take on urban malaise, Janowitz (Slaves of New York, etc ...

Long-simmering resentment has blossomed into a full-on feud between two members of the 1980s literary Brat Pack — Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. Janowitz, who wrote “Slaves of New York,” calls ...

Tama Janowitz was a 28-year-old Barnard grad when her 1986 short story collection “Slaves of New York,” transformed her into a literary wunderkind and downtown It girl pretty much overnight. With the ...

The very best part of Tama Janowitz’s day comes in the morning, after she’s risen and written for a few hours. That’s when she abandons her desk for a nearby farm on the fringes of Schuyler County in ...

Pete Hamill is a hard-boiled tabloidist turned sentimental novelist-historian; Tama Janowitz, who hung with Warhol and skewered the eighties art scene in Slaves of New York, continues to chronicle the ...

In her first novel since 2003's Peyton Amberg, Janowitz imagines a surreal and dysfunctional world where toxic waste is everywhere, the rich are very rich and everyone else is very poor, drugs are ...

Lisa Zeidner’s most recent novel is “Love Bomb.” She teaches in the MFA Program at Rutgers University-Camden. In 1986, when Tama Janowitz read at Rutgers University, she had an audience of almost 500.

Bright lights, big hair: Once upon a time, in a gallery somewhere in Alphabet City, you might have glimpsed the 1980s NYC literati swilling champagne and snorting Bolivian marching powder under the ...

Joanna Smith Rakoff is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in various publications, including Poets & Writers. Few young writers have benefited less from their meteoric rise to fame than Tama ...

She’s getting rid of all the stuff she and her late husband Tim Hunt collected in their large penthouse in Brooklyn, and selling the apartment, too, so she can start afresh somewhere new. “I’m a ...