The Fran Lebowitz Reader

**Fran Lebowitz in

*Public Speaking*

A Martin Scorsese Picture

Now an HBO® Documentary Film

The Fran Lebowitz Reader** brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two bestsellers, M**etropolitan Life** and **Social Studies**, by an "important humorist in the classic tradition" (*The New York Times Book Review*) who is "the natural successor to Dorothy Parker" (British *Vogue*). In "elegant, finely honed prose" (*The Washington Post Book World*), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions. By turns ironic, facetious, deadpan, sarcastic, wry, wisecracking, and waggish, she is always wickedly entertaining.