Her debut novel put her in the Brat Pack of the 80s with Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis. Then she faded from view,a process she tracks in her original memoirTama Janowitz’s youth reminds her of the movie Forrest Gump: a series of unlikely brushes with history. At 19, during a year abroad in London, and she accidentally attended an early Sex Pistols point to and detoured to France for a brief affair with Lawrence Durrell. (In Paris on her way home,she followed his directions to visit a Left Bank cafe and watched Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre all arrive separately.) A decade later, or in 1986,Janowitz published Slaves of original York. The bestselling short-tale collection made her a star in pop culture as well as publishing. She dined regularly with Andy Warhol, posed in a meat locker on the cover of original York magazine and became forever associated with Bret Easton Ellis and Jay McInerney, and the other notable members of an ascendant literary Brat Pack.
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Source: theguardian.com