I mean, it is pretty shocking. "Pretend it's a citywhere there are other people ," she pleads. Fran Lebowitz. One day I went downstairs to eat Polka Dottys food, my mother told me that Polka Dotty had flown south for the winter. Fran Lebowitz is an American author who may be recognized for her role as Judge Janice Goldberg on Law & Order. In conversation with Interview pal Francesco Clemente, Lebowitz here lays out her tongue-in-cheek platform for a mayoral run, declares the Donalds run done, and explains why New York is the greatest place in the world. "One of the reasons people our age came to New York, if you were gay, was because you . And the matron walked in, and the girl actually swallowed it. I met one who used to go to Kennedy Airport, to the terminals where people were coming from Florida, and there were a lot of Puerto Ricans who had never been to New York; he used to have a bathroom scale in the taxi, and he would tell these Puerto Ricans that in this country taxi rates were by weight and that it was a quarter a pound or something like that. CLEMENTE: Did you take drugs before you were 19? She has two children from her marriage to the composer Allen Shawn, the son of the former New Yorker editor William Shawn, and in the living room she displays on a tableproudly, apologeticallyproductions from the arts-and-crafts camps and classes that her son and daughter attended over the years. The knowing audience also died and no longer exists in a real way. Fran Lebowitz. One of my all-time favorite funny people was Jack Douglas. I cant believe anyone has ever made a ballet. My fathermy stepfatherhad gotten ill, and my parents had three boy children. It was like the myth where if a girl gets pregnant and takes the boy to court, if three other boys come into court and say that they had slept with her, they would all get off scot-free. Would you say, You just cant afford to house four children. Lebowitz maintains that she wrote the columns with the intention of building a distinct collection of essays. CLEMENTE: You were not good at math in school? Lebowitz spent the pandemic alone, at her own insistence, having turned down offers to lock down with wealthy friends at their Hamptons homes . No ones supposed to be the president. Homesicknessthis kind of interrupted loveis a big element in your work. The Fran Lebowitz Reader. Lucy stops sending her salary home, and I did stop sending mine. Author Fran Lebowitz was a guest on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night and got herself in hot water when she spoke about President Trump. Not just in school; I count on my fingers still. I have to move the lamp to the desk. In fact, most of the offending language appears in the trailer alone. But I thought it was a job. I answered Steve Pauls telephone and was a general schlepper and errand girl for him, and I drove for him. Lebowitz discoursed without pause for two hours, chain-smoking all the while. Theres an out-loud laugh (or more) on every page, as well as many passages destined for the quotation dictionaries, and the best epigrams written since the invention of television. Over some twenty years, Kincaid has made what my partner, the poet James Fenton, calls a plantsmans garden, full of rare species. But I wanted to be a beatnik when there were already hippies. Nearby are a vegetable garden caged against wildlife and a cottage in which lives Trevor, her bearded young assistant. I would rather have a typist. CLEMENTE: If you were going to run for office in New York, what would be your program, and what kind of qualifications would you declare you have? For instance, I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. I think I will learn to type. High Times: What jobs have you had besides writing? And I feel this way more and more about the Republican candidates, certainly. I went to bed earlier than anyone in the world. Just one day the headmaster woke up and thought. I drove a taxi. BUT.she has plenty to say and has absolutely no problem with verbal expression and is brutally honest. That was one. My idea of pure hell. Famously known to have sidestepped buying into browsing the Internet or even owning a computer, the iconic humorist doesn't - nor will she ever . Lebowitz: Id like to have a talk show with no guests. So we always have this fight, because I have a biography section, and he doesnt like that, because its so inelegant to have a biography section. - 48-page book (text in German) covering the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground in film and a discography, with many b&w and colour photos. Lebowitz: No. Ms. Lebowitz was interviewed by Glenn OBrien, a longtime friend who has proposed marriage on several occasions. Unless they die. Capitalism, pretty old-fashioned, too. She never really wrote anything else and has since made her living on the social commentary speaking circuit. Brooklyn was the borough of grandparents. October 3, 2022 | 2:24pm. ever react to your devotion to their product? No effect? SHOP NOW. I think my most enormous smoking punishment was being grounded for a month. This is why you have so much idiotic behavior among male writers. by Anonymous: reply 136: January 15, 2021 3:23 AM: I adore her. The idea wasnt that I would establish myself and then have the rest of my family join me. Romantic love is mental illness. To me, it would be even a slower way to write. They thought I made them up. I have two animal theories. The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. While working in the local Carvel ice-cream store, she attended an Episcopalian day school until she was thrown out for non-specific surliness. Certain that she would starve to death following this banishment, Lebowitz skipped college and moved to Manhattan, where she pursued such jobs as taxi driving, belt peddling, apartment cleaning (with a small specialty in Venetian blinds), and selling advertising space forChangesmagazine. I took popular tunes, like Michael Row the Boat Ashore, and wrote lyrics having to do with my family. I started being a poet when I lived in Poughkeepsie, and I wrote a book of poetry called Poughkeepsie Blood. I loved dressing up and going out. FRAN LEBOWITZ. ), occasional actor ("Law & Order . Everyone was paid in cash. When she started realizing cigarettes were missing it never occurred to her to accuse me, so she went to the supermarket where she bought her cigarettes and told the manager that the boys who worked there were stealing packs out of the cartons. Or acceptance or understanding. I thought they owned the roads; I always used to tell my parents I wanted to be a toll taker, and they couldnt imagine why. High Times: Didnt you write some pornographic books as a struggling artist? I always liked people who are older. I like Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal, anything with recipes that use marshmallows and American cheese in the same dish. And he did those illustrations. I picked up two famous people: one was Dr. Joyce Brothers, who undertipped me, and one was Rod Steiger. In introducing Fran Lebowitz to a contemporary large audience, the combination of biographical perspective and quasi-vrit style addresses the opposition between private and public (Arendt and Habermas). I was a chauffeur for Johnny and Edgar Winter. At the age of 27, Fran Lebowitz has been suddenly hailed as the funniest writer to come down the pike since Dorothy Parker or, by some accounts, Oscar Wilde. Lebowitz: I didnt worry about it. High Times: Tell me about your books before Metropolitan Life? Im not afraid to be on TV. They had a vision of me in a pink smock with a little square badge on it saying Fran. I remember one of the best days of my life was an all-day A.I.P. Paper, you can feel it. . Lebowitz earned a GED and worked several odd jobs before Andy Warhol hired her as a columnist for Interview Magazine in 1972. LEBOWITZ: Yes, the night before. It's such a ridiculous idea. So I wrote The Secret Castle and was very disappointed to discover that no one published it. More than it works in any other place. Not only dont they not understand people different from them, they hardly understand themselves. And I like cities. . Couldnt it be clean, or cleaner. So they would talk to me. 5. Her voice is as musical as ever, high-pitched, the Anglo-Caribbean lilt beguiling. But its important who the president is. So I would lie in bed and make up book reports about books that I made up. A prominent liberal Democrat with a keen political eye, Lebowitz has. Jamaica Kincaid is a generous host. CBD Could Inhibit Nicotine Metabolism, According to New Study, Cannabis Lounge Planned for Atlantic City Hotel, Bill Seeks To Ease Medical Cannabis Restrictions for New Mexico Firefighters, Heated Debate Erupts on Reddit Over Weed Etiquette at Concerts, Study: Personal Psychedelic Use Common Among Therapists, Jons Stone-Cold Cop List #34: Late Flowers for the Hallmark Day, The Gang Goes to Thailand: Learning the Thai Way (Part 3), The Anthropologist Who Became a Shaman Cult Leader, How Hip-Hop Icons Naughty By Nature Blazed Past the Sleepers, From the Archives: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976), From the Archives: I Wish I Had Invented Sex (1978). They had one guy who was like an Elvis imitator, only he imitated Oscar Wilde. All-around cultural oracle Fran Lebowitz really began her ascent to that pulpit here at Interview, in 1972, writing a wonderful column about terrible movies, and then covering the waterfront, as she called it: opining on sundry topics, giving advice, ranting, reflecting, and hooking the reading world (such as it is) on that voicethat saucy, In "Pretend It's A City," Lebowitz talks about many subjects, including growing up in New Jersey with parents who raised her to be a wife and mother, what's happened to New York City since she. - Booklet on 'New York's Underground' - Large . I saw the super once, just when I moved in, and I pointed out to him there was no ceiling in the bathroom. In the early 1970s, Andy Warhol hired Lebowitz as a columnist for his magazine Interview, where she wrote a column, I Cover The Waterfront. No one else remembers things from this whole period, but I wasnt high. In clips of them talking on stage, Lebowitz looks uncharacteristically awestruck. Steve paid me excessive amounts of money to answer his telephone. But after a while Fran outgrew the bad-flick format. In my grammar school we got extra credit for extra book reports. Me and, like, five of what I then thought of as old menthey were probably 40smoking cigars, watching these movies. At the foot of his driveway in California, Jack Douglas had a sign that said Have you called these people? I also thought Oscar Levant was hilarious. Here's one guarantee in 2021: author Fran Lebowitz won't read this. But I know a lot about them because its impossible not to. I suppose that my work is always mourning something, the loss of a paradisenot the thing that comes after you die, but the thing that you had before. screening with three movies and lunch. My mother and father thought that because I didnt go to college Id probably end up working in the five-and-ten. Theres a connection. Im a horrible girlfriend. It was really a passion with me. She said, You know what its like being with you? . And I reviewed those. I dont like to go out during the dayits too crowded. For some reason, I decided to cut off my hair and bleach it blond. They had a very weird array of people who worked there. President Biden repeatedly framed his campaign and his administration as defending "the rule of law" after what he and others portrayed as the lawless reign of President Trump . Getty Images. I would have gotten a scholarship. Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldnt have all these books. Your friends who dont write will not stay on the phone with you, because they have other real things they want to do. Since we are on the pages of Interview magazine, should we go back to your beginnings at Interview? Go to California. There were just tons of these and I never waited tables. But you need more room to do that. Im simply not a fan of navet. Once I wrote a column for Interview called Send This Girl to Camp where I set myself up as some sort of fresh-air-fund child and announced that I wanted to go to camp: I invented a camp called Camp Sensibility and asked people for contributions to send me there. In the past ten years, Lebowitz has been a regular guest on the television showLate Nightwith David Letterman. It was on West Fourth Street, between Jane and 12th. In the case of most good writers the writing is better than they are. A decade seems like a good enough time for filmmaker Martin Scorsese and cultural critic-writer Fran Lebowitz to return to the screen. Because I had an ounce of marijuana. If you were going to have dinner with some of those older people you mentioned, say writers, which ones would you pick? Did you find subject matter in your taxi rides? Then I started getting suspended from school for smoking. And I read them. Ive never seen the Kardashians; Im not sure who they are. If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am. High Times: What brands have you smoked since then? High Times: What are your favorite magazines? Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant. I saw a lot of movies that were never released because people knew of my interest in that sort of movie, so I often went to distributors screenings and sat with 12 men with cigars. So I have a state diploma. In The Fran Lebowitz Reader, that first book has been re-released in combination with her second 1981 essay collection, Social Studies. I saw an ad in the Village Voice that said WantedPoets. This really weird guy named Jack Scully, who was an ex-monk, had somehow convinced Max Gordon, who owned the Village Vanguard, that the fact that the Vanguard was empty during the day was losing him a great fortune. I met Marc in . Used Planes comes out every single month. texted me, 'Crazy idea, but I think you should play Fran Lebowitz on "Update,"'" he continued. I mean, unless you have an erotic interest in them, what other interest could you have? I like Mel Brooks, especially the 2,000-year-old-man records with Carl Reiner. Like everyone else, I never imagined Donald Trump would get this far. FRAN LEBOWITZ: The thing I did with Marty prior to this was a documentary film called Public Speaking. One of my resolutions is that I am going to start answering my mail. Lebowitz's rise to fame began around 1972, when Andy Warhol hired her for Interview magazine to write reviews of bad movies before she expanded into cultural criticism in her column, "I Cover the Waterfront." She released two well-received collections of essays, Metropolitan Life (1978), followed by Social Studies (1981). But I would always say, Well, its not that I dont want to write for these big magazines, but you cant edit it. And they would always say, What are you talking about? And then they would name thousands of geniuses who willingly submitted to being edited. I hit my limit at 19, and I havent had any since. I love Richard Pryor. Directed by Martin Scorsese, it follows Lebowitz and Scorsese as they prowl New York City streets, museums and members clubs for conversations about the city. LEBOWITZ: I dont cook. When asked about the long delay in its delivery to her publisher, she explained that she only works on it on the side. In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes rambling around Paris with her father, Lester Sloan, a longtime staff photographer for Newsweek, and a glamorous woman who befriends them. Scorsese ventures that it was at a literary party on New York City . I would wake up and be so excited because I could smoke. The whole time before I write I spend on the phone begging people for ideas and solace and sympathy. Lebowitz: I like Marshall Brickman. I didnt connect with the fact that her father was a lord and that he had it privately printed, and that my father was not a lordhe owned a furniture store and had no intention of having a book privately printed. Because if people dont hold grudges, it means they just dont care what people do. Lebowitz: I smoked Tareyton the longest, then I switched to Lark. I wasnt an interesting behavior problem. I like Richie Rich comic books. I wouldnt say that I dislike the young. It was 87. My first action on coming to New York was walking into Grove Press, plunking down the manuscript and demanding they publish it. I rolled my own cigarettes. He was the one that was supposed to be president. Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. French symbolist? And I said, Well, I dont really care. I finish things now, and I think, Who was the last person who typed for me? LEBOWITZ: No. Until then homesickness was something I only knew from books. Someone once told me they were sending me 14,000 roses and 12,000 Chinese concubines, but they never showed up. People say, "All the things that we like about New York are gone.". High Times: Did you ever get any bad reactions from your bad movie reviews? Thats true of her music, but its also applicable to her podcast, Norah Jones is Playing Along.. Even ones that preceded me. Why did your family send you to America? During that period I had stripes cut on my hands. Its like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. Hes not going to be president. On the way he started to drive into a tunnel, and I decided they might be going into a tunnel but I wasnt, so I tried to jump out of the car. What you couldnt have at the time was male homosexuality, because the only books with male homosexuality were for male homosexuals. The idea of writing something without publishing it is too horrifying to me. But then I found out it was fraud or something and I could go to jail, so I sent the money back and wrote to the people who sent it to me. Then, in 1972, she began writing for Andy Warhols Interview. I remember walking in the hot sun to one of the American bases in Antiguapast the crazy house, as we called the lunatic asylum, and the dead house, where the bodies of people who died in the hospital were put until they were collected by the undertakerto be interviewed by an American soldiers wife. FRAN LEBOWITZ: The blood pressure or the air pressure? I also cleaned peoples houses, specializing in Venetian blinds. I saw a group-therapy movieand the whole thing took place in redwood hot tubs with people screaming their problems at each other. One of the movies was The Thing with Two Heads, starring Ray Milland and Rosie Grier. We Pick Up With Our Adventurers As The Party Begins. A pen. I think if there were no such thing as men, there would be no word processors. No, no, no. It was minute. Fran Lebowitz was born on 27 October 1950 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. The writer and raconteur embodied the hip, downtown Manhattan of the 70s. As a Democrat, Id quite like him to be the candidate. Just because its February doesnt mean were talking Roses! China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. I cant remember the last funny thing I ever said. Everybody else was. All Rights Reserved. Fran Lebowitz, ca. Im not the biggest James Joyce fanatic and I would rather have dinner with someone who was funny. As a child I kept the opposite hours. By the time my youngest brother was born her life had collapsed on her, but she was a very elegant woman when I was young. I have a real aversion to machines. Because its everyones dream: Someday Im going to go to New York and go to Queens. Every place theres a hotel, theres one less apartment building. The study where she writes is a sunroom surrounded on three sides by windows. Thats good for at least an hour of not writing. Fran Lebowitz, the writer, cultural critic, and professional raconteur, spoke with me over the phone via landline, as she famously doesn't own a cell phone or computer. OK, come on. He wrote a lot of books. I had always heard that Jeb Bush was the smart one. Volume 1: Best of First Decade 1969-1979. No. CLEMENTE: There was a brilliant article by Rgis Debrayhe was a guerrilla guy with Che Guevarasaying that, since the election of the American president has an effect on the life of every citizen of the planet, all citizens of the planet should vote. Maybe Ill donate them to one of those film schools in Los Angeles for a tax write-off. 2011. The one I wrote myself was called House of Leather. High Times: Have you gotten any marriage proposals? Rare Vintage Andy Warhol's INTERVIEW Magazine, September 1981, featuringCover: FRAN LEBOWITZ w/ feature interview by JOHN WATERS (HYSTERICAL! I believe that at birth everyone gets the capacity for a certain amount of drugs and alcohol, everyone the same, you can do it all between 15 and 19 like I did, or you can stretch it out over 70 years. I like Ebony too, but its no Sepia. Some years ago, Lebowitz sold a proposal of a novel entitled "Exterior Signs of Wealth," a reference to a French conspicuous-consumption tax figured on the basis of display of wealth. I also did some subcontract work for porn writers. Her hundreds of plants are layered into a composition of informal design, expressive of her refined aesthetic and untroubled eccentricity. Lebowitz will appear on stage for four performances only . I said to my friends, 'He's going to make you long for de Blasio, [and] he was terrible,'" the author . "And then we did it the Saturday . Oh, now I remember my favorite TV show from my childhood. CLEMENTE: Did you talk with the clients of your cab? LEBOWITZ: When I move, I do. High Times: Tell me about your career as a poet. Then I moved here. If you can say 'I'll have that and a cup of coffee,' it's not art." 6. Then I try to bargain with them to wait until I get to the absolute edge of the deadline. I wanted to know what a vodka for women meant. CLEMENTE: You didnt have a kitchen, but I doubt that you cook. Lebowitz: I guess after about six months I started getting caught constantly. Fran was raised in Morristown, New Jersey. So should I win the lottery, I will have that type of library. He was stuck, and he asked me to come help. He had only the biggest movies, and he acted like I was affecting the box office. I could have written a trilogy in 11 hours. Thats not writing. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. She has published the novels Annie John (1985), Lucy (1990), The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), Mr. Potter (2002), and See Now Then (2013). Exec Producer, Star, "Pretend It's a City" Having previously starred in and produced a documentary with pal Martin Scorsese (HBO's "Public Speaking"), Lebowitz knew what type of . "And you know, fell into the clutches of Andy who told her she was." Fran continues, "A 25-year-old man who becomes a 25-year-old woman is not a woman at all . But my mother didnt tell me. Its almost as good as being a mechanic. There are certain relationships I think Im great at: Im the worlds greatest daughter. It decimated not just artists but knowledge. I like Thurber. The title refers to her frustration with people so absorbed in their devices that they bump into you on the street. At first Fran had to sneak in her own brand of humor. Lebowitz: Not Samuel Z. Arkoff or anyone, but the press agent there loved me. And I was once ejected from the Whitney Museum for making comments during a film about baking. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. The last one took me 11 hours to type. The essays were published inMetropolitan Life(1978) andSocial Studies(1981). Did you write it at the last minute? The first people who died of AIDS were artists. I saw the only job that was worse than writing. People say, Well, what would you do with Times Square? And I always think, Gee, I dont know. Okay? I used to start at midnight, but thats gotten pushed up, so now its common for me to start at three in the morning. I mean, knowing James Joyce . I mean, that is why we had that little war with England. . I dont want them to come. Now, even if you have money, you can have a horrible apartment. So theyre in alphabetical order, within each section. I mean, New Yorks not exactly antiseptic. Her essays and topical interviews on subjects ranging from the difficulty of finding an acceptable apartment to the art of freeloading at weekend houses have come to be regarded as classics of literary humor and social observation. General with two other people who were also smashed out of their minds. Lebowitz: I have to say I have only written back to important people, people in the publishing business. At one point, I dont know why I had this idea, but it was probably after Andy did those big MaosI had this idea to do this wallpaper of Mao, and we made this fake wallpaper. And it allowed people who would be fifth-rate artists to come to the front of the line. Truckstop Women was one of my favorites. They had a style sheet that was kind of the opposite of the New York Times. I Cover The Waterfront. I used to be ashamed to be seen with her because she was so sexymen of all ages would stop her and talk to her. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. I couldnt imagine knowing someone who was that funny. I like that Oscar Wilde. Did Lucy come out of a feeling that you needed to put your arrival to America in its place somehowto examine it, or to leave it behind? But they didnt have any long-term plan in mind. Comedian and podcast host Bill Maher pushed back against author Fran Lebowitz in his upcoming "Club Random" podcast when she suggested that schools have gone off the deep-end because of Republicans. I believe Im a great friend. Lebowitz: Every single time Ive ever written I thought I couldnt do it. She was a hot little number in 1978 . If I know its the last day, I always do it. CLEMENTE: But if you drink a little bit of coffee before you go to sleep, this doesnt happen. Once I got the contract for Metropolitan Life, I started writing longer things, because the editor said, You cant write these little, tiny things. I have the exact opposite problem of every writer Ive ever met: Every writer Ive ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down. She was an outsider in Antigua, and she looked different. All rights reserved, In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes rambling around Paris with her father, Lester Sloan, a longtime staff photographer for. Maybe 20 people had read it, and he acted like it was in the Daily News. [5] She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the . Aside from the collected Talk Stories (2001), her nonfiction works include A Small Place (1988), a reckoning with the colonial legacy on Antigua; My Brother (1997), a memoir of the tragedy of AIDS in her family; and two books on gardening, My Garden (Book) (1999) and Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya (2005). movie. So just think, if there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. I dont need anything so snappy. I was caught smoking, and I didnt have the cigarette in my hand or smoke coming out of my mouth, and they suspended me anyway, so it turned out not to be true, just suspicion was enough. I did every single one like that. There were two funny ones that were real crowd pleasers when I used to read them. There are a lot of funny people around, and a lot of writers too, but somehow the combination of great humor and great writing has become an exceedingly rare commodity in the modern world. The person who checks you in and takes your name and insurance came over to me and actually said, to me, Why did you choose Mass. Fran Lebowitz is 69 years old October 27. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. 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