The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller (Virago Modern Classics) - Softcover

Lebowitz, Fran

 
9780349019628: The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller (Virago Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0349019622 ISBN 13: 9780349019628
Verlag: Virago, 2025

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A Sunday Times Bestseller, this is a brilliant collection of acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious essays from New York icon Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City

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Arriving in New York over fifty years ago, Fran Lebowitz made her name as a columnist on Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, before publishing two bestselling volumes of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, which are collected in The Fran Lebowitz Reader. She is one of America's most insightful social commentators, a sought-after public speaker, style icon, wit and flaneur. Fran Lebowitz has collaborated with Martin Scorsese on two documentaries: the film Public Speaking in 2010, and the limited series, Pretend It's a City in 2021. Lebowitz lives in New York City, as she does not believe that she would be allowed to live anywhere else.

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Contrary to what many of you might imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to actually sit down and write.

Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from the New York legend and satirist.

Lebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to the vicissitudes of life - from children ('rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money') to landlords ('it is the solemn duty of every landlord to maintain an adequate supply of roaches'). Her advice for would-be Absolute Political Dictators is invaluable ('Not recommended for the shy type'), and her attitude to work is the perfect antidote to our exhausting culture of self-betterment ('3.40pm. I consider getting out of bed. I reject the notion as being unduly vigorous. I read and smoke a bit more').

'She's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour' MARTIN SCORSESE

'The rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny' HADLEY FREEMAN

'Genuinely one of the funniest people in the world' IRENOSEN OKOJIE

'There's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE

'As witty, original, and impeccably discerning as the woman herself' OTEGHA UWAGBA

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Verlag
Virago
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0349019622
ISBN 13 
9780349019628
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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