Fran Lebowitz

Canadian readers would be absolutely venomous if i wrote that i was purchasing a horse…

Tonight HBO is airing Public Speaking, Martin Scorsese’s documentary on raconteur/bon vivant Fran Lebowitz. Rachel Shukert at Tablet has some thoughts on the documentary in the context of Lebowitz’s career, and specifically the fact that she doesn’t exactly have a career in the traditional sense: though she became famous for two books of essays, she’s written very little since, and her never-finished novel is so much a part of her public persona that you get the feeling people would lose interest in her if she actually finished it.