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

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

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

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She's a wizard of the turn of phrase, of reversing meaning to create a new frame through which to view culture, almost always a humorous one.

The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller (Virago

It’s a combination of that and the fact that if I’m not the laziest person that ever lived, then I’m certainly among them. Lebowitz clearly has a witty, frequently snarky voice but I found most of it only mildly entertaining or interesting to read.

So perhaps it’s slightly ironic then that the 70-year-old New Yorker is now being introduced to a new generation of potential fans via a seven-part Martin Scorsese-directed series, Pretend It’s A City, streamed exclusively on Netflix.

The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller (Virago The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller (Virago

Non è un gran bel leggere (troppo difficile, immagino, rendere l'umorismo di Fran Lebowitz in traduzione (le note del traduttore confermano), e forse non è nemmeno vero (come scritto in prefazione) che sia la migliore scrittrice (non scrivente, ormai, fanno giusto quarant'anni che non pubblica) in circolazione, ma ascoltare parlare Fran a ruota libera con Scorsese è un'esperienza fantastica (io l'ascolterei ogni giorno, vorrei una Fran Lebowitz tutte le mattine e tutte le sere a raccontarmi aneddoti sul mondo) e leggere le due interviste che compongono la seconda parte del libro (la prima del 1993 per Paris Review, la seconda del 2021 concessa telefonicamente a Giulio D'Antona) restituisce il buonumore e fa girare felici l'ultima pagina. This has prompted her shift from an actively publishing author to a legendary public wit, who earns her living through speaking engagements. Around 1970, she moved to New York City, where she wrote a column for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, and published two acclaimed essay collections—“Metropolitan Life,” in 1978, and “Social Studies,” in 1981—which were full of spot-on observations about contemporary living. One of the best things about his new documentary series, “Pretend It’s a City,” is getting to see the filmmaker react to his subject, the author and humorist Fran Lebowitz, who is also his good friend.

Ma poi questa donna ha un senso dell'umorismo pazzesco, che riesce a rapirmi senza neanche parlare della contemporaneità e di cose che conosco, perché a lei interessa solo lamentarsi delle cose che la infastiscono di più al mondo: la scrittura (o meglio, lavorare) e le agenzie immobiliari. Het sterkst vond ik haar in de puntige epigram achtige uitspraken die een beetje aan Wilde doen denken. People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes.



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