"If you can eat it, it's not art. 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. It would be as if the letters were sitting there, or the words, smoking cigarettes, staring at you, as if to say, Well? Their antidote to this was giving me about 22 Thorazines. I would wake up and be so excited because I could smoke. LEBOWITZ: Yes, the night before. I met Marc in . Fran Lebowitz: "A dumb woman is the preferred woman in the USA" The essayist and speaker on her Manhattan lockdown, 9/11 and disappointing Americans - from Andy Warhol to Joe Biden. I wrote it in a loose-leaf notebook in pencil. Lebowitz: Ill never make it as a typist. In between writing books Lebowitz is a guest editor and occasional columnist for Vanity Fair. I dont want them to come. 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. We have something here that you dont hear about anymore; we have tolerance. He was the only one of us to break out into the big time, because he got a job on the first gay cruise ship. And if you asked them, Do you like that Jew? She would say, No, I hate him. Do you like that girl in the head scarf? No, I hate her. But heres the great thing about New York: They leave each other alone. She went from the New School in Manhattan to Franconia College in New Hampshire, and worked at Magnum Photos and at the teen magazine Ingenue. He writes for the New Yorker. Im a great relative. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself. General in Boston. Its very disconcerting to be in the basement of a night club at ten oclock in the morning reading poetry on a stage with a spotlight on you and no one there. Stay home! Fran rose to her now-legend status starting at Interview magazine where she wrote a column called "I Cover the Waterfront," She is also the author of two books, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, and the world awaits further writings. In an excerpt from The Art of Fiction no. I can put my hand on any book in the whole house; I know where they are. The title song was sung by a truck. And then she would pop up somewhere else. Although complaint was her form, the result was a celebration of practical intelligence, a kind of Dr. Atkins epicureanism. Then one day Polka Dotty was found dead. The show dives into conversations between New Yorkers Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorcese, and it's like being within earshot of a candid, captivating dinner party convo that you can't help but tune into. June 15, 2021 6:30 AM PT. . In person and on the page, Kincaids is a literary voice. I just talked too much. When I got to the hospital I was restrained. One is that deers are rats. And it turns out that the Bush family, like most families, has no smart ones. I didnt want to have my consciousness expanded, I wanted to have it restricted. More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Born October 27, 1950 Add to list Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy 1 win & 3 nominations total I always was.FRAN LEBOWITZ. The thing that would irk me the mostaside from driving the cab; as you know, Im very lazy, I hate to workpeople would say, Was that a good job? I hate all jobs, okay? Okay? Or acceptance or understanding. I do remember that the worst movie I ever saw was called Four Flies on Gray Velvet, with Mimsy Farmer, one of your great loves. People always say pop culture. As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from. CLEMENTE: You were not good at math in school? Lebowitz: I smoked Tareyton the longest, then I switched to Lark. 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? Ray Millands head was on Rosie Grier. General with two other people who were also smashed out of their minds. Fran is a renowned humorist and essayist. Well, I work on amachine. But because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints. At least to my face. Lebowitz: I guess after about six months I started getting caught constantly. If you don't know Fran Lebowitz, you'll get to know her very well in Pretend It's a City, the new 7-episode docuseries directed by her longtime friend, Martin Scorsese.Lebowitz has been . Now I hate the smell of pot. Lebowitz: A writer. I just knew an eight-year-old wrote it and it was published. So in New York we have zillions of different kinds of people, many of them hate each other, but violence based on that hatred is really uncommon here. 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. 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. 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. It was on West Fourth Street, between Jane and 12th. She rented a theater and sat on stage and called people up and didnt tell them. CLEMENTE: You didnt have a kitchen, but I doubt that you cook. 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. Just one day the headmaster woke up and thought. But . . And people are constantly telling me, whether they are friends who feel sorry for me, because I cant find a place to live, or real estate agents, You cant afford an apartment the size you need with this many books. At the beginning, every day, you asked me a hundred questions about myself. It's such a ridiculous idea. I remember it because they gave me the topic: What was the effect of AIDS on the culture? Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldnt have all these books. Everyone was paid in cash. I hate money. Maybe 20 people had read it, and he acted like it was in the Daily News. For numerous reasons. He was the most inventive cabbie I ever met. I finish things now, and I think, Who was the last person who typed for me? I never watched TV at night because my mother put me to bed at 7:30 until I was 12. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump. I mean, that is why we had that little war with England. What are they going to possibly say thats of interest? No. The duo were discussing their childhoods, saying as children they were never able to partake in "adult" conversations unless they were . And I was once ejected from the Whitney Museum for making comments during a film about baking. One day I went downstairs to eat Polka Dottys food, my mother told me that Polka Dotty had flown south for the winter. Well, huge myths grew up around the matron at my school. CLEMENTE: No, I can sleep. Lebowitz discoursed without pause for two hours, chain-smoking all the while. You can see in it the sentimentality of Jane Eyre. To celebrate, we're republishing Glenn O'Brien's interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. At that point one of the boys I was with realized I was feeling better and got really mad at me for insisting on going to the hospital, and he screamed at me, which made me perfectly crazy by the time I got to see the psychiatrist. The essays were published inMetropolitan Life(1978) andSocial Studies(1981). But they didnt have any long-term plan in mind. I guess it didnt go. I did not connect eating with staying alive, so I didnt think anything of eating the food. I was quite happy to be out. Fabulous. Id rather have people shooting up in my apartment; at least I dont have to smell it. ' Thats how I feel. I was caught all the time. She never really wrote anything else and has since made her living on the social commentary speaking circuit. No ones supposed to be the president. High Times: Did you watch television as a child? It seemed cruel even to other people because I was known as what we called a bright child. No, there wasnt any cause for celebration, though my mother did make me a new dress and see me off to the airport. 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. Used Planes comes out every single month. Fran Lebowitz moved to New York City from her hometown of Morristown, NJ when she was 19. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant. She was a hot little number in 1978 . The idea wasnt that I would establish myself and then have the rest of my family join me. You see a young girl wearing a headscarf, and standing next to her is a Hasid. Black cigarettes, every horrible adolescent smoking gesture imaginable. But I will go see any comedian. Initially, she covered "Best of the Worst Movies," but later changed the name of her column to "I Cover the . Its like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. Her early fiction, much of which also appeared in that magazine, was collected in At the Bottom of the River (1983), a book that, like her Talk stories, announced her themes, her style, the uncanny purity of her prose. It was a very terrifying experience because when I started to flip out having smoked this much pot I was in a room with people who had also smoked this much pot and no one would help me out. The first time I ever came to New York by myself, I snuck to New York on a bus and bought a pair of bongo drums with all the money Id saved my whole life, which was $12. [Clemente laughs] I mean, the great thing about New Jersey is that its close to New York. Wasnt London still a capital of empire in the mid-60s, the cultural center of the Commonwealth? Im only afraid when I write. Fran Lebowitz is 69 years old October 27. 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. 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. He wasnt a comedian, but he was the funniest talk-show guest. The Modern Farmer came on before Sunrise Semester, and it was about farming. They were also the most interesting people. I watched 400 Bayer aspirin commercials. I write with a pen. Interview, at the time, six people read it, believe me. One of my all-time favorite funny people was Jack Douglas. One of them was my columns. I cant imagine what I could have done with it. At my high school they employed a woman known as the matron whose sole job was to go into the girls bathrooms and catch people smoking. It's a drug. 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. So he gave me enough Thorazine to put the entire college to sleep. The idea that New York is over makes some people angry, but it makes me laugh. But her crankiness betrayed a heart of gold. I guess I could have gotten into driving school. Im sorry, were full up. 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. I got on this list, and I went and discussed products. And the matron walked in, and the girl actually swallowed it. There was nothing televisiony or psychological about it. CLEMENTE: Have you been following the presidential campaign? Fran Lebowitz : I cover the waterfront | Semantic Scholar Corpus ID: 228333786 Fran Lebowitz : I cover the waterfront Sandra J. Brant, Ingrid Sischy Published 2004 Art No Paper Link Available Save to Library Create Alert Cite Related Papers Sorry, we did not find any related papers. Theyre acting as if the other people are Abraham Lincoln. There were times when my mother and I would go swimming and she would disappear for a second, and I would imagine the depths just rolling over her, that shed go deeper and deeper and Id never see her again . I didnt know how to type, Marc knew how to type. It went on at five-thirty or six in the morning. She is widely recognized for her collection of essays, including Metropolitan Life, The Fran Lebowitz Reader, and Social Studies. And you know what we have enough of? Romantic love is mental illness. High Times: What was your best subject in school? And you know what we have enough of? But to this day I have never seen a worse movie. But this was the 60s, and there were all of these Harvard medical students there learning to be doctors, so all the doctors in the hospital had hair down to their shoulders and granny glasses. The years have gone by, but she is still tall. Frances Ann Lebowitz ( / libwts /; [1] born October 27, 1950) is an American author, [2] public speaker, [3] [4] and occasional actor. High Times: What are your favorite magazines? LEBOWITZ: I think one manifestation of integrity is holding a grudge. Couldnt it be clean, or cleaner. A pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. I think I got to 2, and then I slept 22 hours. Homesicknessthis kind of interrupted loveis a big element in your work. There is no such thing as inner peace. They also deserve him as candidate, all these so-called mainstream RepublicansI dont know what thats supposed to mean. There were two funny ones that were real crowd pleasers when I used to read them. Children would get up to watch other children playing marbles and Ping-Pong and stuff like that. In the mid-70s, she began to write for The Village Voice, but it was at The New Yorker, where she became a regular columnist for the Talk of the Town section, that everything changed for her. In clips of them talking on stage, Lebowitz looks uncharacteristically awestruck. So I would lie in bed and make up book reports about books that I made up. Lebowitz will appear on stage for four performances only . My favorite thing to do is to call another writer who has a deadline, because they will stay on the phone with you. If theyd known anyone in London, they would have sent me there. Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images. But after a while Fran outgrew the bad-flick format. He said theyd fix it. For two reasons: First of all, I stopped taking drugs when I was 19, and who wants to drive a cab around New York with drugs in their car? Oh, now I remember my favorite TV show from my childhood. It became the major thing I was punished for. Like everyone else, I never imagined Donald Trump would get this far. A.I.P. Metropolitan Life is a 1978 bestselling collection of comedic essays and the debut book by writer Fran Lebowitz. In the case of most good writers the writing is better than they are. Those memories are a constant source of some strange pleasure for me. High Times: Were you a behavior problem in school? 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). But I know a lot about them because its impossible not to. If I know its the last day, I always do it. That doesnt exist any more. Fortunately they didnt, so its not around to haunt me. Fran Lebowitz is 69 years old October 27. After nearly half a century as a journalist, author, social critic and "talker," the quintessential. Because someone once told me that horses legs are actually like fingers and that their hooves are actually fingernails. Speaking to celebrated New Yorker Fran Lebowitz over the phone is an experience as hilarious and eye-opening as one would imagine it to be. And I reviewed those. Well, perhaps, but I never really felt I belonged even in Antigua, even when I was little. And he did those illustrations. Anna Rahmanan. Ive never had a job I liked. I know who I like. She has published the novels Annie John (1985), Lucy (1990), The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), Mr. Potter (2002), and See Now Then (2013). It was originally built as a sailors rooming house, because its very close to the river. Then I switched to Vantage. I think there should be an oldies TV station like theres an oldies radio station, with Dobie Gillis and Life of Riley and all those great shows. But in modern America - where, despite ostensible separation of church and state, the only thing that trumps the cross in terms of influence is the dollar sign - its possibly even worse. The book was released in a 1994 compilation entitled The Fran Lebowitz Reader along with Lebowitz's other bestseller Social Studies. As a child I kept the opposite hours. That's honestly, that's love.". After gaining recognition for her I Cover the Waterfront, Lebowitz moved onto Mademooiselle before publishing her first two books, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. But you need more room to do that. I have to take the TV off the chair. A prominent liberal Democrat with a keen political eye, Lebowitz has. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them. One of my resolutions is that I am going to start answering my mail. Who hasnt typed for me in a long time? I could probably get a secretary for what I spend getting my friends to type for me. Book 7. Not so much to put anything in its place as to give an account of what had happened to me. In fact, most of the offending language appears in the trailer alone. The 70-year-old . The first time we went to dinner and a movie togetherthis was shortly after we metwe got out of the movie, and she said, "Let's get a cab.". I was more of a drinker. SHOP NOW. You're only as good as your last haircut. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists. Everyone thought that to actually suspend you for smoking the matron had to catch you either holding a cigarette or with the smoke coming out of your mouth. I wait until the editor says, Unless its in tomorrow morning at ten oclock we cant run it. Then I stay up all night and do it. My mother came from Dominica, and the thing about those little islands is that people from one island or the other dont like each other. Saying no is a little different. We think his version of the navy pinstripe would fit right in Fran's rotation. The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. But it's a pleasurable one. Grammy-Award winning group members Vin Rock and KayGee reminisce on their New Jersey beginnings, the 30th anniversary of 19 Naughty III and monster hit Hip Hop Hooray, and their relationship with cannabis as a party catalyst and creative tool. And then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming uh-huh, yes?. I did that for a couple of years. And a rooming house is different than a boarding house because there were no kitchens. This has never occurred. She has been a resident of Manhattan, New York since 1970. I thought theyd probably just give me another joint. I saw the super once, just when I moved in, and I pointed out to him there was no ceiling in the bathroom. After I moved to New York, I modeled for people like Steven Meisel. If I had to, I would rather have dinner with James Thurber, than, say James Joyce. I just talked it while a speed freak typed it. A sense of, Im all alone in the world, and I have integrity. But I wanted to be a beatnik when there were already hippies. press handouts. "It's a thousand billion," she continues, audibly indignant. I hated the we. 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. And he would type it. Would you say, You just cant afford to house four children. And I always start writing very late at night. It didnt rhyme. . Steve paid me excessive amounts of money to answer his telephone. It was minute. You dont have to pay me. She said, It is out of the question that this is going to come in without needing editing. And when I gave it in, she called to apologize. Don Rickles. Ill also invent things, like I have to clean the entire apartment before I write. I dressed in old clothes, thrift-shop clothes. At twenty-one, she began a column called "I Cover the Waterfront," for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. Plus they are paid by the minute. I think I will learn to type. And I said, Well, I dont really care. FRAN LEBOWITZ: The blood pressure or the air pressure? That tends to upset people. Fran Lebowitz. And you didnt have to think about money every second. But, third of all, I used to say, I just cant go into a deli and order a roast beef sandwich and give them this.. In her study at home in North Bennington, 2018. Im going out. Im the only person left who is this irresponsible. Theres a connection. Customers paid 99 an hour to listen to this garbage. Volume 1: Best of First Decade 1969-1979. 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, After the latters death, the former mysteriously disappeared. Truckstop Women was one of my favorites. 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. By Susan Devaney. FRAN LEBOWITZ. One day they would show you how to plant tomatoes, the next day theyd show how to raise chickens, the day after that how to can peas. LEBOWITZ: I never remember saying that, but I would have to abridge that. And that is the only place I have those columns, because when I moved from my first horrible apartment, I had every Interview, ever. They would give you $15 and a sandwich. High Times: Tell me about your career as a poet. They used the big Big Apple sign to lure these people who hate New Yorkbecause everyone hated New York thento New York. Her big, broad-frame glasses evoke the Italian movie stars of the sixties. I always liked people who are older. I said, "Toni, the restaurant's five blocks away.". 1. Theres no reason why it has to be the way it is. I started writing for Interview in 1971 or 72, and eventually some of my columns became Metropolitan Life. At twenty-one, she began a column, I Cover the Waterfront, for Andy WarholsInterviewmagazine, before moving toMademoiselle. In the early 1970s, Andy Warhol hired Lebowitz as a columnist for his magazine Interview, where she wrote a column, I Cover The Waterfront. Lucy stops sending her salary home, and I did stop sending mine. Fran Lebowitz Toni Morrison was one of her best friends for almost 40 years, up to Morrison's death in 2019. The knowing audience also died and no longer exists in a real way. And at that time he had every important movie, and that ended my movie-reviewing career. 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 . Or I would call people on the telephone and have their responses broadcast. )Feature about Roy M. Cohn with full page photo by ROBERT MAPPLETHORPEGallery and fashion adsFran Lebowitz ("I Cover the Waterfront" column)music reviews, party pics.Funny classifieds.COVER IS torn (upper When asked about the long delay in its delivery to her publisher, she explained that she only works on it on the side. I used to steal hers. French symbolist? Fran Lebowitz contains multitudes: author (with a decades-old writer's block), journalist (Vanity Fair and Interview, et al. Your friends who dont write will not stay on the phone with you, because they have other real things they want to do. I wanted to be a beatnik. I never make the connection between someones writing and who they are. Her hundreds of plants are layered into a composition of informal design, expressive of her refined aesthetic and untroubled eccentricity. But, I mean, no one talked about money. Fran describes Ralph Lauren's copying, and eventual embodiment, of Brooks Brothers WASP style. I might have gone to the University of the West Indies. Okay? He was stuck, and he asked me to come help. This is why I have problems with books, because you cannot do that the night before. Because I had an ounce of marijuana. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. I got up every morning, brushed my teeth and went to the Village Vanguard and read poetry. I wrote a musical comedy for my grandparents 35th wedding anniversary. This is why you have so much idiotic behavior among male writers. But what would also be impossible, would be to write on one of those word processors. BUT.she has plenty to say and has absolutely no problem with verbal expression and is brutally honest. And I would always give it back. The other is that horses are hands. But now, as Ive grown up, all my friends have developed much more mature writing habits. Like love does. Fran Lebowitz kicks off her career working for a small magazine, "Changes" at the age of 21 where she sold advertising space, then wrote book and movie reviews and was hired as a columnist for "Interview" by Andy Warhol where she wrote a column called "I Cover the Waterfront." The two things I hate the most. He packs them, and then every time you move, they have to be put in different ways. I was mesmerized by The Modern Farmer. When I first came here, meeting writers wasnt available to me; but now that I have met tons of those people, I wish I hadnt. LEBOWITZ: That was later, for my next column, I Cover the Waterfront. That was after I met Marc. Lebowitz: No. Im such a slow writer I have no need for anything as fast as a word processor. Bankers. I wish it was still on, except now I guess it would be too modern. "It would have been . Fran took on modern manners, aesthetics and culture the way William Buckley takes on liberalism. Its the thing that Im most criticized for. With one suitcase? During that period I had stripes cut on my hands. Lebowitz is strictly opposed to technology and to this day has no cell phone, computer, or typewriter. CLEMENTE: Did you take drugs before you were 19? Its too expensive. Kincaid divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is a professor of African American studies at Harvard University, and Bennington, Vermont, where her large brown clapboard house with yellow window trim is shielded by trees. For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write aboutthe movies. "Candy was a man who wanted to be a female movie star," says Fran in the opening of the under-three-minute teaser. On the Boston University phone you dialed N-E-E-D and a concerned Jewish graduate student came over and took me to Mass. People say, Oh, did you like New York better when it was filthy and dangerous? No. It was written in the nineteenth century by, I think, a seven- or eight-year-old child who was the daughter of someone very rich who had this book printed. Not just in school; I count on my fingers still. I have about ten thousand. High Times: Didnt you write some pornographic books as a struggling artist? But I really dont like animals at all. High Times: When you were writing The Best of the Worst what was the best bad movie you ever saw? I was simply sent away to support them. You might say that was the influence of my mother. It was terribly disconcerting because I knew that they werent going to cure me. Interview still frame courtesy of Stephanie Black. Lebowitz: I didnt worry about it. I didnt have any adventures. The most interesting one I went to was for a company that wanted to make a vodka for women. Required fields are marked *. LEBOWITZ: Well, you know, so few Americans vote that we may not even notice it. . Here's one guarantee in 2021: author Fran Lebowitz won't read this. Scorsese ventures that it was at a literary party on New York City . Thats good for at least an hour of not writing. CLEMENTE: But dont you love being in someone elses apartment, possibly someone you dont know well or know at all? Thats why visitors was misspelled. So I evolved the theory that horses are hands. And its not just New York; its the whole world. The arrival of my youngest brother had plunged us into a kind of poverty wed never known. I was not surprised to see this. Its almost as good as being a mechanic. What you couldnt have at the time was male homosexuality, because the only books with male homosexuality were for male homosexuals. Thats not writing. I always was. Lebowitz: I only wrote one by myself. Even ones that preceded me. I think I first came across it in one of the Bronts. They told you what to write. Thats really interesting. Fran Lebowitz is a world treasure. 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