The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Published on 6. July 2011
352 pages
978-0-307-74493-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Fran Lebowitz still lives in New York City, as she does not believe that she would be allowed to live anywhere else.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by this Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- METROPOLITAN LIFE
- My Day: An Introduction of Sorts
- MANNERS
- Manners
- Vocational Guidance for the Truly Ambitious
- Modern Sports
- Breeding Will Tell: A Family Treatment
- Disco Hints: The New Etiquette
- Better Read Than Dead: A Revised Opinion
- Children: Pro or Con?
- A Manual: Training for Landlords
- Success Without College
- Specialty Banking: A Numbered Account
- The Right of Eminent Domain Versus the Rightful Dominion of the Eminent
- The Family Affair: A Moral Tale
- Guide and Seek: I'm O.K., You're Not
- A World View
- Notes on "Trick"
- SCIENCE
- Science
- The Nail Bank: Not Just Another Clip Joint
- Digital Clocks and Pocket Calculators: Spoilers of Youth
- Weak Speech Handsets: Aid for the Dull
- The Primary Cause of Heterosexuality Among Males in Urban Areas: Yet Another Crackpot Theory
- Why I Love Sleep
- Good Weather and Its Propensity to Frequent the Better Neighborhoods
- Plants: The Roots of All Evil
- Mars: Living in a Small Way
- City Limiting: The New Geography
- Food for Thought and Vice Versa
- ARTS
- Arts
- Not in the: Mood Jewelry
- Clothes with Pictures and/or Writing on Them: Yes-Another Complaint
- Soho: Or Not at Home with Mr. Art
- Color: Drawing the Line
- The Sound of Music: Enough Already
- A Brush with Death
- LETTERS
- Letters
- Writing: A Life Sentence
- In Hot Pursuit
- Or Not CB: That Is the Answer
- The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes
- Taking a Letter
- Writers on Strike: A Chilling Prophecy
- A Few Words on a Few Words
- No News Is Preferable
- SOCIAL STUDIES
- PEOPLE
- People
- How Not to Marry a Millionaire: A Guide for the Misfortune Hunter
- The Four Greediest Cases: A Limited Appeal
- Parental Guidance
- Tips for Teens
- At Home with Pope Ron
- The Modern-Day Lives of the Saints
- The Servant Problem
- THINGS
- Things
- Pointers for Pets
- The Frances Ann Lebowitz Collection
- The Pen of My Aunt Is on the Operating Table
- PLACES
- Places
- Lesson One
- Diary of a New York Apartment Hunter
- Fran Lebowitz's Travel Hints
- IDEAS
- Ideas
- When Smoke Gets in Your Eyes . Shut Them
- The Last Laugh
- The Fran Lebowitz High Stress Diet and Exercise Program
- The Unnatural Order
- How to Be a Directory Assistance Operator: A Manual
- War Stories
- The Short Form
- An Alphabet of New Year's Resolutions for Others
- To Have and Do Not
