Slacks for Ella Funt

I read this for my book club—we only read books set in New York. Though it was written in the mid 80s, Slaves of New York has a lot of the standard New York characters who still populate New York and movies/television/fiction about New York. The single girl, the self-important artist, the wannabe rock star, etc. At this point, though, particularly post Sex and the City, this sort of thing seems a pretty overdone and uninteresting. I’m sure Janovitz was original at the time, but it doesn’t seem particularly unique now.