I Cover The Waterfront. I never make the connection between someones writing and who they are. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump. Fran Lebowitz.the toast of the town; a brilliant writer who almost never writes. 19 January 2021. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. 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. More than it works in any other place. But since that apartment was infested with roaches, I decided not to bring them to my nice, new apartment. High Times: Tell me about your career as a poet. High Times: Did you ever worry about not graduating from high school? Its very important who the president of the United States is. The idea of writing something without publishing it is too horrifying to me. In fact, most of the offending language appears in the trailer alone. The last one took me 11 hours to type. There is only nervousness or death. BUT.she has plenty to say and has absolutely no problem with verbal expression and is brutally honest. But all the rest of them were, including Jeb Bush. Photograph by Christopher Macsurak. Why dont you just put some of your books in storage? And I always say the same thing: What if I told you I had four children? Paper, you can feel it. I would have gotten a scholarship. 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. I dont like to go out during the dayits too crowded. Im speaking to you from a priceless, one-of-a-kind chair. But to this day I have never seen a worse movie. My parents did. 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. She has published the novels Annie John (1985), Lucy (1990), The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), Mr. Potter (2002), and See Now Then (2013). I never write anyone letters. The other is that horses are hands. They had a vision of me in a pink smock with a little square badge on it saying Fran. One of my resolutions is that I am going to start answering my mail. Go back. I think that would solve both problems. I like Ebony too, but its no Sepia. You published Metropolitan Life in installments in Interview. CLEMENTE: [laughs] Lets talk about your twenty thousand books. I have about ten thousand. Her voice is as musical as ever, high-pitched, the Anglo-Caribbean lilt beguiling. So he wasnt a surprise to me. I said to my friends, 'He's going to make you long for de Blasio, [and] he was terrible,'" the author . Correct? Im a horrible girlfriend. Lebowitz spent the pandemic alone, at her own insistence, having turned down offers to lock down with wealthy friends at their Hamptons homes . I watched 400 Bayer aspirin commercials. Tolerance is really a better thing than understanding. 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. But I will go see any comedian. I would have liked to have met Nabokov. CLEMENTE: Do you think youre the manifestation of integrity? Alison Roman Dishes on Resy, Air Fryers, and Erewhon, The Gatekeepers of New Yorks Most Coveted Tables Tell All, Kathryn Newton and Paul Rudd on the Joys of Being Extra, Alex Cooper Calls Her Daddy Mel Ottenberg at the Prada Show in Milan. I had this aunt who had a book called The Night Visiters. AIDS completely changed American culture. In between writing books Lebowitz is a guest editor and occasional columnist for Vanity Fair. The novel is reputedly about rich people who want to be artists, and artists who want to be rich people. Frances Ann Lebowitz ( / libwts /; [1] born October 27, 1950) is an American author, [2] public speaker, [3] [4] and occasional actor. I now dread the getting-it-typed part as much as I dread the writing part. I would stand in front of the class and report on a book I had made up. 246, Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti discuss how writing her first novel helped Cusk discover her shape or identity or essence. Next, Allan Gurganuss reading of his story It Had Wings, about an arthritic woman who finds a fallen angel in her backyard, is interspersed with a version of the story rendered as a one-woman opera by the composer Bruce Saylor. But I just cant smile at people for money. Then I switched to Carlton in an attempt not to smoke too much, and now I smoke nine times more Carltons than I ever smoked anything else. I saw the super once, just when I moved in, and I pointed out to him there was no ceiling in the bathroom. I write so slowly that I could write in my own blood without hurting myself. High Times: Do you remember the first funny thing you ever said? Nearby are a vegetable garden caged against wildlife and a cottage in which lives Trevor, her bearded young assistant. Lebowitz: I was beatnikesque. Every single one. Because if people dont hold grudges, it means they just dont care what people do. Meeting James Joyce would be more on the order of sightseeing, like seeing the Washington Monument or the Jefferson Memorial. A prominent liberal Democrat with a keen political eye, Lebowitz has. High Times: What was the first thing you wanted to be when you grew up? There were two funny ones that were real crowd pleasers when I used to read them. 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. High Times: If someone offered you an hour TV special that you could do anything with, what would you do? Used Planes comes out every single month. When I was really young I wanted to be a toll taker because I thought they kept the money. I also have several writing habits necessitated by living in this apartment. CLEMENTE: One of my favorite quotes of yours is when you said that youve never been in a relationship for longer than six months, because you didnt want to switch from boredom to contempt. They told you what kind of sex to put in it. CLEMENTE: I know you follow politics, and I always thought you would make an excellent mayor of New York. 1. And I was really distraught. If theyd known anyone in London, they would have sent me there. It was terribly disconcerting because I knew that they werent going to cure me. I like Richie Rich comic books. Lebowitz: Not from the people who made the movies. Fran Lebowitz, ca. And it allowed people who would be fifth-rate artists to come to the front of the line. But . And I reviewed those. As boring as reading it. June 15, 2021 6:30 AM PT. Then I moved to New York and switched to exotic foreign brands. By Meredith Blake Staff Writer. Ive never had a job I liked. It didnt rhyme. 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? I got a lot of tips. Lebowitz is an atheist, so for her, no. No one else remembers things from this whole period, but I wasnt high. Subscribe for free:Stitcher|Apple Podcasts|Google Play, 2023 The Paris Review. Everyone was paid in cash. Im afraid Im sitting beyond my means.. And, of course, New York was always more expensive than any other place in the United States, but you could live in New Yorkand by New York, I mean Manhattan. This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. My idea of pure hell. It was like watching children at a birthday party. FRANCESCO CLEMENTES LARGE-SCALE INSTALLATION, ENCAMPMENT, WILL TRAVEL TO EVELEIGH, AUSTRALIA, THIS SUMMER. It reminds me of when a choreographer I know was creating a ballet. January 30, 2011. CLEMENTE: You were not good at math in school? One of them was my columns. 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 decimated not just artists but knowledge. Two rare items of Andy Warhol: 1) Pop goes art - Institut fr Popkultur - 1990 - Box - Contains several items: - Glossy folder of loose-leaf art-paper reproductions. 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? The way the admissions director of Harvard decides who goes to Harvard, Id like to decide who comes here. 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 . Full-time Im watching daytime TV., The following interview took place one afternoon in an apartment overlooking the East River. And you didnt have to think about money every second. But letting people get on and off the 6 train without stabbing each other, thats good. I remember it because when I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. In "Public Speaking," the initial documentary, Ms. Lebowitz brilliantly notes that one of the great tragedies of the AIDS crisis was that the city lost not only a generation of artists and. I was very bitter about it because I had before me what seemed to be a successful future. And at that time he had every important movie, and that ended my movie-reviewing career. LEBOWITZ: The first thing I would do is say, I dont care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business, which is what happened. It would be as if the letters were sitting there, or the words, smoking cigarettes, staring at you, as if to say, Well? That was on the second floor. LEBOWITZ: But what about the caffeine? Unless they own a hotel chain, I dont think a single one of these eight million people are happy about this. She was part Carib Indian, and they used to call her the Red Woman. He said theyd fix it. I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning. "Pretend it's a citywhere there are other people ," she pleads. CLEMENTE: One of my favorite things that you ever published was something that came out at the height of the AIDS epidemic, when the amount of nonsensical, prejudiced, ridiculous things being said was really extraordinary, and you came up with a few paragraphs that really nailed the situation. $598 $300 at Ralph. What you couldnt have at the time was male homosexuality, because the only books with male homosexuality were for male homosexuals. when asked about his sexuality replied "I cover the waterfront." Andy said it went over like a lead balloon. By Kate Mossman Enough time has passed, Fran Lebowitz thinks, to admit she went to a birthday party on 9/11. I dont remember who published it. I ended up smoking Lucky Strikes, just because I liked the way it looked, the gesture. Like, this is the smart one, this is the pretty one. Lebowitz: My writing habits are basically nonwriting habits. Fran Lebowitz is an American author and a public speaker. Lebowitz: Id like to have a talk show with no guests. October 3, 2022 | 2:24pm. And he did those illustrations. But after a while Fran outgrew the bad-flick format. Fran Lebowitz has realised George Costanza is, in fact, an idiot. Theyre acting as if the other people are Abraham Lincoln. I sold belts on the street. If I know its the last day, I always do it. Lebowitz: I dont remember. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Lebowitz: No. I like lots of writers, but now I cant think of them. And, first of . screening with three movies and lunch. So theyre in alphabetical order, within each section. And I was once ejected from the Whitney Museum for making comments during a film about baking. And its not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait. They had very good writers, but they were these old, stout white men. . Maybe Ill donate them to one of those film schools in Los Angeles for a tax write-off. You cant do it. So I remember I said, Look, if you dont like it, give it back to me. Donald Trump is not my fault. Lebowitz: Sepia is my all-time favorite. No, youre not. I still have the clothes I bought at Bonwit Teller. High Times: When you were writing The Best of the Worst what was the best bad movie you ever saw? It is boring and it is arithmetic. I liked it better than critics screenings because they didnt sit there trying to think of entertaining comments; they just sat there with their cigars, trying to figure out how much money they could make on it. Romantic love is mental illness. Not just in school; I count on my fingers still. High Times: Didnt you write some pornographic books as a struggling artist? Im not afraid to be on TV. Id just sit at a desk and talk. 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. Her father, Harold Lebowitz, owned a furniture store and upholstery workshop. If you can say 'I'll have that and a cup of coffee,' it's not art." 6. When it was on at 1:30 I saw no reason to get up in the morning, but now its on at 11:30, so sometimes I wake up to watch it. Fran Lebowitz. I didnt lead a riot or set fire to the gym or do anything James Deanish. Im a horrible girlfriend. General? And I said, Because I liked your clever ads.. I love Richard Pryor. Fran Lebowitz. High Times: Tell me about your books before Metropolitan Life? No, no, no. New Yorkers, weve seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. In my grammar school we got extra credit for extra book reports. To celebrate, were republishing Glenn OBriens interview with the living legend from the August, 1978 print edition of High Times. Fran Lebowitz slams NYC mayor Eric Adams. The first thing I did was a movie review column, just bad movies, called Best of the Worst. There used to be a company called AIP, American International Picturesthey mostly made movies for drive-ins; some of them would come to Times Square. Thats not writing. Glenn OBriens interview with the iconic Fran Lebowitz from the August, 1978 issue of High Times magazine. 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. Dutton, is a collection of Frans columns. Homesicknessthis kind of interrupted loveis a big element in your work. He was the most inventive cabbie I ever met. And I would always give it back. What youre supposed to have is, say, all Henry Jamess novels and the letters, which is more elegant. I couldnt imagine knowing someone who was that funny. It wasnt enough that he had Charles Mingus playing there every night. "Eric Adams I saw coming. Lebowitz: I see no reason to get up before one oclock except to watch Family Feud. 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. And its not my desire to make New York more suburban. But a lot of people didnt like that piece and were angry at me. The most interesting one I went to was for a company that wanted to make a vodka for women. I was pulled out of school to take care of my youngest brother while my mother went to work, and when she realized I hadnt been looking after him properly, that I had been reading instead, she gathered all the books I had stolen from the library over the years and burned them. I didnt have any adventures. Thanks for offering this from your Archive. In the case of most good writers the writing is better than they are. Lebowitz: I dont know if any inspire me. It was minute. My first school punishment was sitting in the corner in kindergarten wearing a Band-Aid over my mouth and holding up a sign that said I am a chatterbox. That was my first run-in with authority. In clips of them talking on stage, Lebowitz looks uncharacteristically awestruck. And just think how fantastic New York would be. I started writing for Interview in 1971 or 72, and eventually some of my columns became Metropolitan Life. 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. Fran Lebowitzs trademark is the sneer; she disapproves of virtually everything except sleep, cigarette smoking, and good furniture. I sulk for several days. Just one day the headmaster woke up and thought. Im very vilified for this, I have to say. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero moneyI dont just mean in the house, I mean to my nameand know that by the end of the day, I would have money. This is why you have so much idiotic behavior among male writers. High Times: Tell me about your writing habits. I had an ingrained hatred of Jeb before I ever saw him. LEBOWITZ: I used to. Then I went to a prep school that had a paper called the Wilson Wyndowe. Lebowitz: Daddy. My mother taught me to say that so I would wake my father up instead of her. I did every single one like that. You can probably tell from my writing that Im obsessed with notions of justice and injusticethose things that are wrong that can never be made right. Lebowitz: I wrote a book when I was about eight called The Secret Castle that owed a lot to Carolyn Keene, who wrote the Nancy Drew books. First of all, there were a zillion bad jobs. You might say that was the influence of my mother. So I went to his studio several times while he was making the ballet. Its placing too great a burden on the average intelligence. Then I try to bargain with them to wait until I get to the absolute edge of the deadline. I used to steal hers. LEBOWITZ: Im following it, but in a way, I also feel the way I feel about the Kardashians: I feel like its following me. In person, that voice pours out in great glittering riffs (on politics and personal space, on AIDS, the 80s, New York, and everything in between) that set Lebowitz atop our list of dream dinner-party guests and probably put her in the running for greatest talkers ever. The Fran Lebowitz Reader. Its not my preference, but it is my lot in life. Nowadays if I were to be homesick it would be for Vermont, which is strange. And soon she had a book offer from a fan in publishing. 15.19. At least to my face. 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. 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. They had a very weird array of people who worked there. Polka Dotty ate seeds and celery tops, and my mother would give me Polka Dottys food, and I would go downstairs and eat it. There were just tons of these and I never waited tables. She was an outsider in Antigua, and she looked different. LEBOWITZ: Yes, I was born in New Jersey and I lived in New Jersey until I was 18. Capitalism, pretty old-fashioned, too. And I even have the Richie Rich home game. Couldnt it be clean, or cleaner. After gaining recognition for her I Cover the Waterfront, Lebowitz moved onto Mademooiselle before publishing her first two books, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. 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. Someone once told me they were sending me 14,000 roses and 12,000 Chinese concubines, but they never showed up. I wouldnt say that I dislike the young. We went to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Connecticut and interviewed the star of the play, and I wrote this incredibly bitchy Rex Reedish interview with her and got an outraged letter from her press agent. They told you what to write. CLEMENTE: Did you take drugs before you were 19? Meet Fran Lebowitz and join her on her rambles as she muses about deadly distractions, Times Square terror, subway stoppers and total building fails. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. 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. People say, "All the things that we like about New York are gone.". There was nothing televisiony or psychological about it. Lebowitz: I smoked Tareyton the longest, then I switched to Lark. I rolled my own cigarettes. I use them frequently. The housing problem would be solved completely. Scorsese ventures that it was at a literary party on New York City . 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. They were terrible. Did you write it at the last minute? 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, I hated the we. "And then we did it the Saturday . "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 . Lebowitz: I had a parakeet when I was four called Polka Dotty, and I killed Polka Dotty by eating its food. But Ive never missed a deadline. And as Fran took on polyester, landlords, press agents and pop psychology, her reputation grew. Then I started getting suspended from school for smoking. I was never interested in having such interesting experiences. I was a chauffeur for Johnny and Edgar Winter. 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 thought theyd probably just give me another joint. I write with a pen. But now, as Ive grown up, all my friends have developed much more mature writing habits. Which is why I remember things. )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 Then, in 1972, she began writing for Andy Warhols Interview. I was really very proud of that. I would wake up and be so excited because I could smoke. High Times: Were you a behavior problem in school? You have an idea for an app? Instead of representing oil as self-evident, Sinclair imbues it with a kaleidoscopic range of associations that reimagine it on visionary new terms.. It was the most money Id ever made. Oh, now I remember my favorite TV show from my childhood. I think I first came across it in one of the Bronts. The New York Times, especially at that time, was gigantic. 817K views 3 years ago #amanpourpbs Known for her sardonic wit, social commentator Fran Lebowitz is a New York legend. But her crankiness betrayed a heart of gold. I loved dressing up and going out. A Bic pen. 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