Fran Lebowitz
Birth date: October 27, 1950
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This was my guide to hipness when I was 14. I like to think I've aged considerably more gracefully than the book.
While uneven in places I loved reading the dry, scalding wit of Fran Lebowitz. She is at her best at her most brief:"Polite conversation is rarely either.""Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeing insight.""If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longe...
Rather dated humorous essays about the urban life of a writer. I often disagree with Lebowitz, but she is so funny, I don't mind. She actually reminds me of a friend I went to high school with who is just as misanthropic and opinionated. I first read these essays in high school, but recently perused...
Read for a grad school essay on literary journalism about New York. I really enjoyed Lebowitz' voice and perspective on the city and its denizens circa the late 1970s.
Tasha was too bored to get to the pandas (despite panda-mania here); it was really not a story for her.
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