Fran Lebowitz is not pessimistic, but “realistic”. Everyday life is a series of hassles and you spend most of your adult life being “unhappy”. Take this European tour, intended to promote her collection of chronicles, published thirty years ago in the United States and now all over the world, thanks to the success of Martin Scorsese’s documentary “Pretend It’s a City”, of which she is the main subject. Already, it is necessary to support the journeys by plane, without being able to smoke. Then, the morning of our meeting, the saleswoman of a Parisian men’s clothing store refused to go and check if her size, the smallest, was available. As for the elegant cufflinks she wears in her agent’s opulent apartment, she finds fault with them:
“It’s a thimble cut in two, dating from the 1930s. At the time, any object could be made into cufflinks. Today, it is impossible, you no longer find a jeweler in jewelry stores. »
We met the legend Fran Lebowitz, the writer who does not write
Fran Lebowitz is the bite of a Dorothy Parker and the bad hair of a Larry David, the hero of the series “Larry and his navel”. A speech that mixes common sense, sarcasm and scathing repartee, which she monetizes at a high price in the conferences she gives around the world. A legend, revered by the younger generation because they experienced the New York of the seventiesle Studio 54, Robert Mapplethorp
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