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Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a young vice president at Comedy Central who was called "ahead of her time" by Jordan Peele "Compelling, persuasive, and useful no matter where you are in your life. By all appearances, she had mastered being a grown-up. But beneath that veneer of success, she was a chronically anxious, self-medicating mess.
No one knew that her road to adulthood had been paved with depression, anxiety, and shame, owing in large part to her minimally parented upbringing. She realized she'd hit rock bottom when she drunk-dialed her therapist pleading for help. Funny woman Lebowitz looks askance at the vanishing American ideal, and in one slim volume takes issue with the issues, derides the demise, and makes light of the heavy-handed.
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Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting—until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised her in the tradition of calorie counting.
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Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Fran Lebowitz Reader. Jan 15, Downward rated it it was ok. Let's get this out of the way: Fran Lebowitz is incredibly talented.
A razor sharp and reckless wit, cutting up culture in the manner of Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker. She's a wizard of the turn of phrase, of reversing meaning to create a new frame through which to view culture, almost always a humorous one. But Fran Lebowitz is also kind of a jerk, dodging sincerity and sticking it to anyone and everyone that doesn't fall into her tiny worldview.
The essays are very short, ignoring depth for a quick jab at whatever Lebowitz has targeted. As a collection, the schtick becomes tedious, though one can see how these pieces, brief and good for a quick laugh would fit into a magazine.
Worth picking up, but only for the occasional browse-through. Not meant to be read cover-to-cover. View all 3 comments. Aug 18, mark monday rated it liked it Shelves: he-said-she-said. Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.
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This analogy is meant to suggest that each is unique - no two alike. This is quite patently not the case. People, even at the current rate of inflation - in fact, people especially at the current rate of inflation - are quite simply a dime a dozen.
View all 5 comments. Jan 08, Lena rated it really liked it Shelves: humor. Fran Lebowitz is a New York humorist who worked as a columnist for Andy Warhol's Interview before publishing her first collection of comic essays, Metropolitan Life , in In The Fran Lebowitz Reader , that first book has been re-released in combination with her second essay collection, Social Studies. That she is a fascinating and very funny person is obvious from the outset.
Whether or Fran Lebowitz is a New York humorist who worked as a columnist for Andy Warhol's Interview before publishing her first collection of comic essays, Metropolitan Life , in Whether or not she deserves the title of "the modern-day Dorothy Parker" may be up for debate, but as soon as I heard her discussing her car, a vintage Checker cab, as being such an incredibly subtle shade of pearl gray that "straight men think it's white," I decided I had track down her book.
Her written works did not disappoint. Fran's essays follow a very distinct style - short, sharp, smart, and very, very dry. This one-of-a-kind book includes timely, insightful quotations covering hundreds of critical issues and even presents a chapter entitled "Callous and Clueless Quotes from the Right" to remind readers just how nasty and thuggish right-wing discourse has become.
A perfect resource for writers, bloggers, researchers, activists, speechwriters, teachers, and students, What Liberals Believe will appeal to anyone who has grown weary of the extremism of the shameless right.
With a new, updated section reflecting the presidential season, this book contains everything you need to contextualize incumbent Barack Obama with what other liberals, past and present, believe. What Liberals Believe is an excellent resource to have on hand during the upcoming election. But staying in the background was not possible for Mengers. A true original with a gift for making the biggest stars in Hollywood listen to hard truths about their careers and personal lives, Mengers became a force to be reckoned with.
Her salesmanship never stopped. In , she was on a plane that was commandeered by a hijacker, who wanted Charlton Heston to deliver a message on television. Mengers was incensed, wondering why the hijacker wanted Heston, when she could get him Barbra Streisand. Acclaimed biographer Brian Kellow spins an irresistible tale, exhaustively researched and filled with anecdotes about and interviews more than two hundred show-business luminaries. A riveting biography of a powerful woman that charts show business as it evolved from New York City in the s through Hollywood in the early s, Can I Go Now?
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