Low-Budget Production

Film trailers on the Lower East Side

"In New York, sometimes, to walk around the streets and the nightclubs feels like being in a movie. The same actors keep reappearing, in different locations. The whole business is a low-budget production."
Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York

New York Successes

The Strand

"You know how New York is. You get a success, and even before you're even allowed to have the success they chop you down and say, 'Well, who does she think she is?' You know, New York is vicious to its successes."

Tama Janowitz, New York Magazine

American Rage

Occupy Wall Street posters in the West Village

"The juice of New York was something he could understand. American rage, freedom from European classicism and the deathly Common Market."
Tama Janowitz, Slaves of New York