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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.
- 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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- 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
- Subject
- 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