Social Studies

Humor & Entertainment

Lebowitz, Fran

Humor

SIDGWICK JACKSON

Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.\n'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS 
'She's inexhaustible - her personality, her knowledge, her brilliance, most of all her humour' MARTIN SCORSESE 
'The rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny' HADLEY FREEMAN\nLebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to the vicissitudes of life - from children ('rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money') to landlords ('it is the solemn duty of every landlord to maintain an adequate supply of roaches'). And her attitude to work is the perfect antidote to our exhausting culture of self-betterment ('3.40pm. I consider getting out of bed. I reject the notion as being unduly vigorous. I read and smoke a bit more').\n'Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things and small people talk about wine' 
'Think before you speak. Read before you think' 
'All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable' 
'There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death' 
'The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting'

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Virago

The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, by an "important humourist in the classic tradition" (The New York Times Book Review) who is "the natural successor to Dorothy Parker" (British Vogue). In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life-its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, she is always wickedly entertaining.

Hachette

Lebowitz's second collection of articles presents her wry, witty comments on the people, the ideas, the equipment, the frustrations, the pleasures, and the feel of modern urban life

Random House]

Metropolitan Life

Reference

Fawcett

A witty, sometimes curmudgeonly, often helpful look at various fads, crazes, morals, fashions, and mores in America today ranges from comments on good weather to a pontifical guide for the truly ambitious

Fawcett Books

Plume

A witty, sometimes curmudgeonly, often helpful look at various fads, crazes, morals, fashions, and mores in America today ranges from comments on good weather to a pontifical guide for the truly ambitious

New Amer Library

A revelatory collection of behind-the-scenes photographs of celebrities and cultural icons--from Joan Didion&nbsp;to&nbsp;the Rolling Stones&nbsp;to&nbsp;Nancy Pelosi. Featuring short essays from Fran Lebowitz, Harrison Ford, and more.&nbsp; "A treasure trove of celebrities at play in the 1960s, '70s and '80s." --PEOPLE&nbsp; Camilla Pecci Blunt, a nonprofessional photographer who grew up between Italy and New York, was well placed to forge the path she did. Her mother was passionate about the arts, took photographs, painted, and collected artists around her, and had galleries in Rome and New York. The more than six hundred photographs in this book from the 1950s to the early 1990s capture our cultural icons in casual, playful moments. After she married Earl McGrath in 1963, their homes--first in New York and then in Los Angeles--became gathering places for a wholly unexpected mix of people that Camilla documented in these surprising, in-the-moment photographs: Jackie Kennedy, Jerome Robbins, Sammy Davis Jr., Calvin and Kelly Klein, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Bruce Chatwin, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Jean Tinguely, Frank O'Hara, Jasper Johns, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones, Bryan Ferry, Bette Midler, Jerry Hall, Keith Haring, Linda Ronstadt, Jerry Brown, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski, John Waters, Joan Didion, Angelia Huston, Robert Graham, David Hockney, Michael Crichton, and Barbra Streisand, among many others. Andrea di Robilant's essay, along with memories from Griffin Dunne, Vincent Fremont, Harrison Ford, Fran Lebowitz, and Jann Wenner, reveal the backstory of this irresistible look at the larger-than-life cultural figures of our time as you have never seen them.

Face to Face: The Photographs of Camilla McGrath

Arts & Photography

Di Robilant, Andrea

McGrath, Camilla

Dunne, Griffin

Fremont, Vincent

Ford, Harrison

Wenner, Jann

Individual Artists

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