I wybaczcie mi proszę, ale będę w opinii o „Nie w humorze” bezkrytyczna, choć widzę w tych esejach sporo fragmentów, które dziś ju�� by nie uszły na sucho - ale to teksty z lat 70,80 i 90-tych i przez pryzmat tego powinniśmy je czytać. people are always on their phones and not looking where they’re going; the subway is barely operative and smells bad; the city changes all the time, and, as soon as you finally get used to something, it’s gone. You know that feeling when you’re a child and your parents won’t let you have candy, and then when you’re an adult you find out you can eat candy every single day? 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 - Wikipedia

Questo non-libro, che alla fine è pura e genuina opinione, mi ha fatto così ridere che consiglio a tutti di leggerne un capitolo al giorno. Lebowitz is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities. I first heard about Fran after watching the Martin Scorsese-IFC documentary about her, Public Speaking. Now Film Forum had been shut for nearly a year, and I was viewing “Pretend It’s a City” from my couch in Brooklyn, feeling far away in more ways than one. The book is a compilation of essays from Lebowitz's previous bestsellers Metropolitan Life from 1978 and 1981's Social Studies.Not that the book is not well written and lets the personality shine through, not that some parts are not very, very funny it´s just . I got the audiobook version (the publisher combined this and Social Studiesto make The Fran Lebowitz Reader). This will come as no surprise to anyone who is even vaguely familiar with her work, which, in the past four decades, has largely consisted of being Fran Lebowitz: a strong-willed, grumpy, verbose, brilliant woman, who is eager to give her invariably cutting take on anything and everything.

Fran Lebowitz: ‘If people disagree with me, so what?’ Fran Lebowitz: ‘If people disagree with me, so what?’

Es tomēr vienu zvaigzni noņēmu, jo teksti tomēr nav mūžīgi, ir novecojušas detaļas, kuras mani diezgan garlaikoja. I enjoy the idea of lying around all day reading magazines, though I doubt I could get anyone to pay me for that. But I heard that a lot of people were talking about [the article] online and I’ll tell you what surprises me is how people, who are totally unrelated to whatever’s being written about, will take these huge sides over things,” she says. Occasionally, as he did in “Public Speaking,” Scorsese inserts archival snippets of musical performances—Marvin Gaye rehearsing “I Want You,” the New York Dolls tearing through “Jet Boy,” as a way of invoking a bygone city.Lebowitz worked odd jobs, such as taxi driving, belt peddling, and apartment cleaning (“with a small specialty in Venetian blinds”), before being hired by Andy Warhol as a columnist for Interview. People don’t know how fun Toni was because she had such an intimidating presence, but she was really fun,” says Lebowitz a little wistfully. This is excellent work if you can get it, and, as far as I can tell, hardly anyone but Lebowitz has.