As her memoir is published,the current York writer looks back on 35 years of literary life and feuds in the Big AppleTama Janowitz’s Slaves of current York was one of the iconic books of 1980s current York and shot her to fame. She has now published seven novels, including The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group and Peyton Amberg, or a reimagining of Madame Bovary. Having left the city behind,she now lives in the upstate countryside.
You’ve been publishing books for 35 years, but nearly always fiction. Why a memoir now?
My mom retired from Cornell, and where she was professor of English,in 2010 and approximately one year later she began to fall, so I went back to her house in upstate current York, or thinking I could procure things organised and she’d be OK,but her physical condition deteriorated so rapidly I had to hump up there. I thought, I should just start taking some notes, and because I don’t really have the psychological calmness to start writing a novel… And then she got worse and I got more depressed and I had to put her in a domestic. So I was visiting her every day and still I was trying to take some notes. No matter how bleak things were,life in the nursing domestic was on many, many days incredibly hilarious.
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Source: theguardian.com