Tama Janowitz

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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1986
  • Latest Book:
    August 2016
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Book List in Order: 11 titles

  • Slaves of New York

    This collection of stories describes the life-styles of New York urbanites--young women, artists, an educated prositute--who find themselves sharing cramped Manhattan apartments and bobbing half-cheerfully, half-lost in the city...

  • American Dad

  • A Cannibal in Manhattan

  • The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group

    She's Pamela Trowel, a New Yorker, single and singular: holed up in her swampy basement apartment when she isn't peddling guns and ammo ads for Hunter's World magazine. Pamela attracts Manhattan's wrongest kind of men: the cinematographer-exhibition...

  • By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee

    From the author of Slaves of New York and The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group, this satire in the all-too-rare genre of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One tells a compelling story of the sex lives of people and invertebrates at the end of America's 20th c...

  • A Certain Age

    When Florence Collins sets out for a weekend in the Hamptons, her life spirals into a disastrous series of mishaps that include an unwanted night-time visit from her friend's husband, the near drowning of their daughter, and her expulsion from the pr...

  • Hear That?

    Maybe it's a mouse. Maybe it's a wombat. It may even be a walrus trying to escape from the refrigerator! As a mother and child wonder what each click, knock, and rattle in their house could possibly be, each guess gets wilder and wilder in this fanta...

  • Area Code 212

    I was walking down the street and a homeless person on the corner yelled to me, 'Hey, honey - you having a bad hair day?' Welcome to the wonderful world of Tama Janowitz, New York's wittiest and deader than deadpan social scene chronicler. Littered w...

  • Peyton Amberg

    'What was the use of living in a porn film now, at her age?' pondered Peyton Amberg, alone in a glamorous Hong Kong hotel room. At twenty, when she could have pulled a film star, she'd had no sex drive at all. Then she - and her mother - had wanted l...



  • They Is Us

    Oryx & Crake meets Douglas Coupland. An unforgettable vision of the future of America.Years from now America finds itself split between the rich and the poor. The haves live in luxury within the small regions that remain unpolluted while the ...

  • Scream

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Tama Janowitz has published 11 books.

Tama Janowitz does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Scream, was published in August 2016.

The first book by Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York, was published in October 1986.

No. Tama Janowitz does not write books in series.
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