The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Let's get this out of the way: Fran Lebowitz is incredibly talented. A razor sharp and reckless wit, cutting up culture in the manner of Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker. 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 humo......more

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government. This is not to say that it is without its drawbacks - chief among them being......more

Finally finished this- it was staring to become torturous. This collection started out as deeply entertaining and even hilarious at points. But Fran’s pieces quickly become old, repetitive and unfunny the more you read of them. It is very obvious that her humorous essays were published weekly in mag......more

If you’re going to pen complaints from an apartment in Greenwich Village (however modest it may be by New York standards), those complaints are only funny if you understand their relative lack of merit. By which I mean that the hilarity of people like Fran Lebowitz and Larry David isn’t that they do......more

Sicher kann man über einige Passagen schmuneln, aber im Großen und Ganzen ist es leider nicht mein Humor.......more