Sinopsis
In this darkly funny, surprising memoir, the original “Lit Girl” and author of the era-defining Slaves of New York considers her life in and outside of New York City, from the heyday of the 1980s to her life today in a tiny upstate town that proves that fact is always stranger than fiction.
With the publication of her acclaimed short story collection Slaves of New York, Tama Janowitz was crowned the Lit Girl of New York. Celebrated in rarified literary and social circles, she was hailed, alongside Mark Lindquist, Bret Easton Ellis, and Jay McInerney, as one of the original “Brat Pack” writers—a wave of young minimalist authors whose wry, urbane sensibility captured the zeitgeist of the time, propelling them to the forefront of American culture.
In Scream, her first memoir, Janowitz recalls the quirky literary world of young downtown New York in the go-go 1980s and reflects on her life today far away from the city indelible to her work. As in Slaves of New York and A Certain Age, Janowitz turns a critical eye towards life, this time her own, recounting the vagaries of fame and fortune as a writer devoted to her art. Here, too, is Tama as daughter, wife, and mother, wrestling with aging, loss, and angst, both adolescent (her daughter) and middle aged (her own) as she cares for a mother plagued by dementia, battles a brother who questions her choices, and endures the criticism of a surly teenager.
Filled with a very real, very personal cast of characters, Scream is an intimate, scorching memoir rife with the humor, insight, and experience of a writer with a surgeon’s eye for detail, and a skill for cutting straight to the strangest parts of life.
Capítulos
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001 scream
Duración: 13s -
002 SLIP
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003 a visit to dad
Duración: 14min -
004 dad, guns, and pot
Duración: 17min -
005 my mom
Duración: 04min -
006 a supermarket in ithaca
Duración: 07min -
007 life in ithaca
Duración: 07min -
008 a bit about schuyler county
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009 an inhabitant of schuyler county
Duración: 07min -
010 time in brooklyn
Duración: 08min -
011 family relations
Duración: 09min -
012 an attempt at explanation
Duración: 03min -
013 divorce in the 1960s
Duración: 11min -
014 israel in 1968
Duración: 11min -
015 mom's arrest
Duración: 06min -
016 psychic studies
Duración: 11min -
017 portrait of the artist with a young epiphany
Duración: 09min -
018 mom becomes a boardinghouse landlady
Duración: 06min -
019 london in 1976
Duración: 06min -
020 a side trip to france
Duración: 14min