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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021 back in london
Duración: 15min -
022 new york city, 1977
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023 an influential teacher
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024 i was a guest editor at mademoiselle
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025 looking for work
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026 transgender publishing outing
Duración: 12min -
027 once i was brave
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028 on lou reed
Duración: 07min -
029 on andy warhol
Duración: 12min -
030 i buy an apartment
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031 a city of rich and poor
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032 how i met the kennedys
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033 socialite, art, and fashion
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034 my mom gets a job and a real home
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035 ithaca is the wrong place
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036 life in the old days
Duración: 22min -
037 how to inspire rage
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038 the search for help for willow
Duración: 11min -
039 leaving ithaca
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040 in search of lost time
Duración: 15min