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Constance Grady @ Vox · 10/19/2023 08:00 EDT

Professional raconteur Fran Lebowitz thinks art should be useless

Fran Lebowitz | Brigitte LacombeAnd that you should probably wear shoes. Does anyone have it figured out as well as Fran Lebowitz? She spent the 1970s hanging out with Andy Warhol and writing two books that made her the toast of her generation (1978’s Metropolitan Life and 1981’s Social Studies). Then she claimed writer’s block, hung it all up, and declined to publish anymore. Now she’s in the amorphous career of public speaker: acerbic and crankily funny, but not exactly a standup comic; politically engage

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