Tama Janowitz to Speak about the NY 80s Art Scene
Author Tama Janowitz will be doing a lecture tomorrow (February 21st) at the Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta. The presentation is titled “The Slaves in New York: the New York Art Scene of the 1980s — Including My Blind Date Club with Andy Warhol!”
Janowitz burst into the spotlight in 1986 with “Slaves of New York,” a collection of offbeat, bitingly satirical short stories that shed light on Gotham City’s denizens and social mores. That year she made the cover of New York magazine and was dubbed “The Most Talked About Woman Writer of the Year.” Janowitz became fodder for the gossip columns, learning first-hand what it means to go from relative obscurity to celebrity status. She became more than a young writer with a success on her hands: She became an icon of New York’s kinetic night life, running in the same circles as her good friend Warhol.
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