Fran Lebowitz

Fran Lebowitz in Public Speaking A Martin Scorsese Picture Now an HBO(R) 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.

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

A hilarious account of metropolitan life.

Metropolitan Life

Lebowitz's second collection of articles presents her wry, witty comments on the people, the ideas, the equipment, the frustrations, the pleasures, and the feel of modern urban life

Social Studies

In the vein of Lebowitz's acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It's a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author's bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. 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, Fran Lebowitz is always wickedly entertaining.

La vita è qualcosa da fare quando non si riesce a dormire

"Hilarante ... A una dosis de Huck Finn agréguesele un poco de Lenny Bruce, Oscar Wilde y Alexis de Tocqueville, una pizca de taxista, juegos de palabras variados y un picadillo de jerga, y remátese con un toque de sabelotodo." The New York Times "Una prosa elegante y hábilmente afilada." The Washington Post "Ese cóctel de ironía, angostura, crueldad y naranja amarga." Pau Arenós, El Periódico Es una provocadora nata, capaz de bajarles los humos a la mayoría de sus conciudadanos y de reírse de cualquier situación: la búsqueda de apartamento, las facturas de teléfono impagadas, un viaje, las firmas de libros, el dormir (o no dormir) a horas indecentes, las ansias de triunfar, tomar unas copas con celebridades, los buenos restaurantes o la (adulta) educación de los hijos. Por si todavía no lo han adivinado, hablamos de Fran Lebowitz. Hablamos de Nueva York. Célebre al hilo de la serie Pretend It's a City, de Martin Scorsese, Fran Lebowitz ha sido una gran desconocida que, por fin, y con toda justicia, ha obtenido el éxito que merecía. Su prosa, ahora reunida, es un compendio del humor más refrescante y mordaz que se haya leído en décadas.

Un día cualquiera en Nueva York

An Unreliable Memoir

Tales from a Broad

Fran Lebowitz Reader

Nie w humorze

vida metropolitana y ciencias sociales

While exploring their New York City apartment building, seven-year-old Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue discover two pandas.

Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas

Lisez avant de penser

Pensez avant de parler

From the pen of Fran Lebowitz: "Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." "The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting." "Humility is no substitute for a good personality." "When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough." "If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words." "I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere." From a woman who considers herself a lazy writer and who once said, "Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try," comes this new volume, which brings back into print two of her most celebrated collections of essays. Written in the tradition of Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz's hilariously acerbic Metropolitan Life and Social Studies are classics of their genre. In them Lebowitz does what she does best, caustically portraying 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.

The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video

Metropolitan Life and Social Studies

Quando a Netflix exibiu a série Faz de conta que NY é uma cidade, de Martin Scorsese, muita gente no Brasil foi apresentada pela primeira vez a Fran Lebowitz. Artista brilhante com humor ácido, publicou pouquíssimo, apenas três livros, e nenhum no Brasil. A obra reúne textos de dois desses livros: Metropolitan Life e Social Studies, originalmente publicados em 1978 e 1981 a partir da coluna que ela assinava na Interview, revista fundada por Andy Warhol.

O almanaque de Fran Lebowitz

Exterior Signs of Wealth

Elli Wohlgelernter

American Jewish Committee

The author examines the vanishing ideal of progress, bemoaning the disappearance of positive thinking, reflecting on the scandals of contemporary American life, and condemning its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and obsessions.

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