Eleanor crea gioielli in gommalacca a forma di torte, Stash dipinge quadri con protagonisti Duffy Duck e Gatto Silvestro, Marley sogna di andare a Roma a realizzare una cappella a due passi dal Vaticano... Sono solo alcuni dei personaggi che abitano 'Schiavi di New York': una fauna stralunata, composta da artisti emergenti, stilisti in erba, aspiranti registi, prostitute occasionali, tutti apparentemente incapaci di trovare la realizzazione personale e la felicità, ma soprattutto costretti a ogni tipo di compromesso pur di non rinunciare al sogno che la città rappresenta per loro. Ala sua prima uscita nel 1986 'Schiavi di New York' è subito diventato un best seller mondiale, consacrando Tama Janowitz come una delle figure di punta del brat pack letterario (insieme a Bret Easton Ellis e Jay McInerney) ed eleggendola a icona degli anni '80: la si vede in posa accanto all'amico Andy Warhol, ospite da David Letterman e negli show di MTV, e persino come testimonial di una campagna pubblicitaria americana dell'Amaretto di Saronno. Con la sua umanità schietta, ironica e squinternata 'Schiavi di New York' conquista anche il celebre regista James Ivory, che lo trasforma in un film nel 1989. Oggetto di culto e ritratto in presa diretta di una generazione, il libro di Tama Janowitz si rivela ancora oggi attuale, innovativo e irresistibilmente comico. Questa nuova edizione è arricchita da tre racconti inediti, una traduzione aggiornata a cura di Rossella Bernascone e una prefazione di Veronica Raimo.

In this darkly funny, surprising memoir, the original “Lit Girl” and author of the era-definingSlaves 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 inSlaves 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.

Inventive, enigmatic, and supremely creative, Stephen Sprouse made art and clothing that captured the mood of the eighties. One of the first American designers to mix graffiti and a punk aesthetic with fashion, Sprouse manipulated conventional notions of style, and his unique sensibility has inspired designers from John Galliano to Raf Simmons to Marc Jacobs. Sprouse's career started in the late seventies, when, after working for Halston, he migrated to a warehouse on the Bowery and started making outfits for his neighbor, Debbie Harry. The fashion world quickly embraced his innovative, culturally relevant sensibility and downtown edge. But Sprouse's inability to compromise his artistic vision for the rigid fashion business compromised his commercial success. The Padilhas possess the largest private collection of Sprouse's work, and were given exclusive access to his archives by his family for this project. They also obtained never-before-published images from photographers such as Steven Meisel, Bob Gruen, and Mert and Marcus. The book features a foreword by the novelist Tama Janowitz, one of Sprouse's closest friends. The release of this book coincides with a retrospective at Deitch Projects. The book will be available with four different jackets, each featuring a different Day-Glo color, an homage to Sprouse's iconic album cover for Debbie Harry's Rockbird.

From the bestselling author of Slaves of New York comes a hilarious, clear-eyed, satiric novel about the sad plight of a misguided woman on the make in Manhattan. Thirty-two-year-old Florence Collins is an "aging filly-about-town"--still beautiful enough to be (sometimes) invited to the best parties and the right restaurants, but unmarried and rapidly going broke. In her world, marriage to a wealthy man is all that can save her, although Florence's hard-hearted search for security and status takes her on an inevitable downward spiral.

New York "society novels" at the turn of the nineteenth century gave us a piercing look at the world and rituals of the city's wealthy; Janowitz here casts that tradition in a fresh light, giving us a tirn-of-the-century society novel that demonstrates how little seems to have changed. In a sly and unforgettable portrait of New York's haute monde, Janowitz brilliantly evokes a young woman's struggle for love and survival in the city that is as unforgiving today as it was a hundred years ago.

Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers. But between the disappointments come snatches of self-awareness, and a strange beauty in their encounters with one another.