The legendary writer and social commentator discusses book bans, the farce of modern American politics, and how she navigates aging (“It’s better than the alternative”)
I dial Fran Lebowitz’s landline and begin to leave a message at the beep—a muscle I haven’t flexed in quite some time. She screens her calls, so I’ve gotten clear instructions to wait so she can hear me introduce myself after the beep. She picks up. “Hi, Fran, how are you?” I ask. Quickly, sharply, she responds: “I haven’t decided yet.”Fran Lebowitz has always been of the zeitgeist. If you ever read Interview’s “The Best of the Worst” column in the ’70s, you know her as a writer.
Anyone becoming educated is very offensive to them. I just came back from Detroit, and before that Baltimore, doing what I’m about to do in Brooklyn. And I signed books after. And lots of times people in the book line tell me, “I’m a school librarian, I get death threats.” School librarians. These people are like the backbone of democracy. They are so important. They were very important in my childhood, very important to me. No one should get near telling them what to do.
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