Fran Lebowitz Is Never Leaving New York

"Fran Lebowitz is the patron saint of staying at home and doing nothing. She is famously averse to working, and famously resistant to technology; she has no cell phone or computer. She moved to New York City from Morristown, New Jersey, around 1970, the moment she was legally able to do so, and became one of New York’s most distinctive personalities, with her defiant grouchiness, her devotion to cigarettes, her trademark ensemble of cowboy boots and custom-made Anderson & Sheppard suit jackets, and her pearl-gray 1979 Checker car. Soon after arriving, she talked her way into a job writing for Andy Warhol’s Interview, and her incisive commentary on city living was collected in two volumes, 'Metropolitan Life' (1978) and 'Social Studies' (1981). ... Thanks to COVID-19, many of us are now trapped at home, if not nearly as stylishly. ..."
New Yorker

2015 September: Fran Lebowitz