'The gold standard for intelligence efficiency and humour. Now and forever' David Sedaris
'She's inexhaustible - her personality her knowledge her brilliance most of all her humour'
Martin Scorsese Acerbic wisecracking and hilarious this is the definitive essay collection
from New York legend and satirist Fran Lebowitz. Lebowitz turns her trademark caustic wit to
the vicissitudes of life - from children ('rarely in the position to lend one a truly
interesting sum of money') to landlords ('it is the solemn duty of every landlord to maintain
an adequate supply of roaches'). And her attitude to work is the perfect antidote to our
exhausting culture of self-betterment ('3.40pm. I consider getting out of bed. I reject the
notion as being unduly vigorous. I read and smoke a bit more'). 'A forcefield of comic
self-certainty in a world of anxious uncertainty' Guardian 'The most well-connected iconoclast
since Dorothy Parker' The Times
