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Fran Lebowitz in Public Speaking A Martin Scorsese Picture Now an HBO® Documentary Film The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, by an "important humorist in the classic tradition" (The New York Times Book Review) who is "the natural successor to Dorothy Parker" (British Vogue). In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, she is always wickedly entertaining.
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"It's very difficult for me to determine how much a reader who was not born and raised in NYC in the same era as the author would enjoy this book. I loved it and found it extremely amusing, actually hilarious in some places."
— Irene (4 out of 5 stars)
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" Short, witty, biting and completely caustic...I love it! "
— Daniel, 2/13/2014 -
" Fran Lebowitz is a very funny woman. "
— Mark, 2/11/2014 -
" Have heard her on tv and great comedian, but the stuff just doesn't come across funny on the printed page. "
— Virginia, 2/1/2014 -
" This paperback is a collection of short essays originally published as two bestsellers in the 1970s (Metropolitan Life and Social Studies). Back then, her books defined knowing, urban cool. Guess what? They still do. If you were a mite too young to appreciate Leibowitz's take on that libertine decade the first time around (like me - I was just a toddler), now is an excellent time to make her acquaintance. The pieces still hold up as good writing and deliver plenty of sharp laughs. Some of the topics she lambasts with sardonic yet laugh-out-loud humor include baggage-claim areas, high tech, after-shave lotion, adults who roller skate, children who speak French, and anyone who is unduly tan. "
— Blair, 1/29/2014 -
" ah, fran. the book is a bit uneven, but when she is on she is ON. as a fellow curmudgeon new yorker, how can i not love her? she is, at times, hysterical and brilliant. "
— Mia, 1/18/2014 -
" This collection of the two Fran Lebowitz books is as fresh & funny as ever. Some of the surface details of life in NYC have changed but the wit & the wisdom are still strong. "
— Joe, 1/5/2014 -
" I enjoyed Lebowitz's snarky and short chapters, mostly, but found a lot of her humor to be dated-references to obscure 70s/80s pop references went over my head. "
— Jasonspaul, 1/5/2014 -
" A wonderful writer with a distinct style. I just wasn't too interested in her subject: a journalist's perspective on the Me Decade in New York City. "
— Briana, 11/1/2013 -
" I've always found her funny, but the essays are decades old now, and the humor is (except here and there) dated. "
— Diane, 10/21/2013 -
" Dangerously, I had expectations for this one. I was hoping for timelessly witty incisiveness! And I got latter-day Woody Allen's cutting room floor! "
— Megan, 9/23/2013 -
" She is HILARIOUS and I now worship her. "
— Mariha, 4/13/2013 -
" I expected it to be much better! I would much rather listen to Ms. Lebowitz talk! "
— Dina, 2/9/2013 -
" If you love to laugh and love NYC, then this is the best book! NYers have a terrible attention span, so these short humor essays are the best way to get through an afternoon. "
— Alison, 12/19/2012 -
" Picked this up in Greenwich Village on Bleecker St. Seemed appropriate. "
— Kevin, 12/6/2012 -
" Skimmed it...bored...I guess not for my present state of mind. Maybe I'll pick it up again some other time.. "
— Bambi, 9/6/2012 -
" Endlessly witty. So so rare nowadays. Very much enjoyed, laughed out loud. do read it! "
— Meredith, 8/31/2012
About Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz is an American author. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern-day Dorothy Parker.