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Fran Lebowitz

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This event is available on demand from 6.30pm AEDT, Monday 25 October until 6.30pm AEDT, Monday 1 November.

‘One thing about leaving your apartment is there’s so many other people out there. The great thing about my apartment, aside from the fact that it’s a great apartment, is that I control if there are other people in it.’

 This October, Fran Lebowitz is bringing her deliciously devastating brand of no-holds-barred wit back to the Wheeler Centre.

From one New Yorker to another, she’ll speak with Sarah Krasnostein about everything from the city they love to the foibles they hate and the writing they can’t forget. 

Lebowitz is one of America’s most insightful social commentators, a sought-after public speaker, style icon, wit and flaneur. She has collaborated with Martin Scorsese on two documentaries: the film Public Speaking in 2010, and the Netflix series Pretend It’s a City in 2021. 

Well-versed in the art of conversation, Lebowitz originally made her name as a columnist for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, before publishing two bestselling volumes of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, both of which are collected in the recently reissued The Fran Lebowitz Reader. Celebrating its release, she joins us from New York, the only city she believes she would be allowed to live in. Settle in for a wide-ranging conversation with a wit so sharp you can think of the distance as a safety measure.

 The online bookseller for this event is Hill of Content


This event takes place online and is available on demand from Monday 25 October  6.30pm AEDT, until Monday 1 November 6.30pm AEDT.

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Fran Lebowitz

Arriving in New York over 50 years ago, Fran Lebowitz made her name as a columnist on Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, before publishing two bestselling volumes of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, which are collected in The Fran Lebowitz Reader. She is one of America’s most... Read more

Sarah Krasnostein

Sarah Krasnostein is a multi-award winning writer. She is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner, The Believer , the Quarterly Essay, Not Waving, Drowning and On Peter Carey. She holds a PhD in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice in Australia and America. Her awards includ... Read more

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