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PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-100312320620

ISBN-139780312320621

eBay Product ID (ePID)30779922

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Book TitleArea Code 212 : New York Days, New York Nights

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicGeneral, Literary, Customs & Traditions

FeaturesRevised

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorTama Janowitz

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight18.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-052476

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal974.7/043

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

Table Of ContentContents Acknowledgments xi "Another Day Almost Over" by Phyllis Janowitz xii Part One: 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 Two: 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 f0 Raped by Butterflies 117 A Monarch in Manhattan 120 The Kangaroos at the Zoo 122 Part Three: 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 Four: Food 149 Gluttony 151 The Food Chain 154 The Supermarket, Part Two 159 The Dinner Party f0161 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 Five: 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 NY Times Op Ed Page 345 After 9/11 347 About the Author 349

SynopsisWelcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, one of New York's wittiest social chroniclers.Area Code 212is 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. Above all, the humor and insights ofArea Code 212will not only appeal 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. Self-deprecating, funny, and touching,Area Code 212is an irresistible collection of essays., Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, overstimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body drop in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be fifteen-year-old Celeste Jonqueres, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his patient back from the brink and begins to face his own life, he pieces together what he has stumbled into. Animal rights activists, Celeste and her beloved grandmother have taken on a vicious poaching ring, operating from Quebec s Laurentian Mountains and dealing in bear and other animal parts for the international market, with the collusion of corrupt rangers and police. Her grandmother has died suspiciously. And now that Nile has saved Celeste from the dead, the poachers and their accomplices in this small town have taken notice and are cautiously, but inexorably, closing in. Featuring two brilliant misfits as unlikely sleuths and by turns comic and darkly tragic, this haunting thriller is a neo-noir tour de force, abounding in puzzles and mysteries from a missing cat to the fate of the Eastern cougar., 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 herapartment roof, on hairless dogs and ferrets, babies, the outer boroughs, big-hair days and bad-hair days. Above all, the humor and insights of Area Code 212 will not only appeal 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. Self-deprecating, funny, and touching, Area Code 212 is an irresistible collection of essays.

LC Classification NumberF128.55.J36 2004