Metropolitan Life

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Slight handling wear, bookseller's small ink stamp to first page, mild marginal toning/spotting, faint remainder marks to bottom edge of book block, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. I'm old enough to remember mood rings and CB radios, but they wern't all that funny then, and they are definitely not funny now. The strange irony of this fact is that we get to see her speak more often and in more locations than she would ever lecture or read if she were raking it in from her books. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands (U. Some crinkling to first few pages and some minor offsetting to front endsheets, but a most acceptable copy of the true first edition of the author's first book.

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Obviously today's club kids, and what passes for today's urban "Hip Hop" youth are completely different.Light rubbing and scuffing to jacket; minor bumping and creasing to jacket edges; 1" scuff / abrasion to front cover cloth; gentle bumping to corners; previous owner's bookplate to front free endpaper; pages are clean and unmarked; binding is square and tight. After all, a person who might well spend an entire evening staring at a kitchen utensil has little to recommend him as a dinner companion. Nothing remarkably funny or insightful, Metropolitan Life struggles to find that sweet spot between comedy and commentary. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. For a long time after this book, there was excited, hopeful chatter about The Novel Fran Lebowitz was writing.

So for those who live in New York, or who are part of the art world, or those who are part of the literary world, or those that happen to include all three in their circles of acquaintance, these essays are probably hilarious — they weren’t for me.

It is far too risky—particularly if the person in question is moved to share his thoughts with others. This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations.