Fran Lebowitz

‘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Well-versed in the art of conversation, Lebowitz originally made her name as a columnist for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, before publishing two bestselling volumes of essays, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, both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

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