Fran Lebowitz on the Process of Great Writing | Collection in Focus
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
- “The closest thing to a human being is a book. I know people think it’s a dog, but they’re wrong…When you look at manuscripts or letters and they’re written in the hand of the writer, you are closer to that writer, you’re closer to the person.” -Fran Lebowitz
For our Centennial, we asked some of our friends and collaborators to speak about what they love about the Morgan Library and Museum. Watch writer and iconic New Yorker Fran Lebowitz describe some of her favorite letters and manuscripts in our collection by her favorite writers. Lebowitz describes what makes Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain great writers to her.
Video by SandenWolff. 
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If the title says "Fran Lebowitz" - it's a thousand percent chance I'll click on the video 😂😁
Was just thinking the same thing!
Ditto
Let’s turn your post into the next “me too” moment ❤
"There are two kinds of people in New York: the kind of people who have room for books and the kind of people who have books - and they are never the same people." -Fran Lebowitz
How about the kind of people in New York that punch women in the face walking down the street?
Truly intelligent people never need to boast about their intelligence. Fran, however, never misses a chance to mention how smart she is.
Didn’t she file bankruptcy a few years back?
I met Fran this year. She's tiny, practically frail in person yet her presence is gargantuan. There were so many things I wanted to say but I only had about 30 seconds. My contribution to the encounter was so abysmal in relation to my expectations for the moment that it was comical. She was everything all at once. Uncharacteristically polite, on-brand (brazen), endearingly subtle; she sealed the deal with her signature wit. Panicking out of my struggle to resolve the painful (approx. 5 second) silence and fill it with ANYTHING, I said something I would ordinarily cringe at in hindsight. However Fran used my fell-flat-Hail-Mary as a springboard for a quip; an act I consider to be of compassion towards a socially anxious neurotic.
What does springboard for a quip mean? Sorry English is not first language
love hearing small tidbits of Fran and Toni Morrisons friendship ❤
I need 70 hours of this not 5 minutes
I looked up all her interviews after I watched her Netflix show 😂 I'm so glad i got 5 more minutes
Yes please!
She’s pretty amazing. Like the library she’s sitting in.
Fran Lebowitz. To the point. Concise. Best advocate for both the Morgan Library and New York. Thank you.
She br9ught a tear to my eye speaking (so briefly) about Oscar Wilde, I felt the exact same sentiment regarding her feelings about my namesake!
Fran is the perfect example of wit equaling intelligence.
Fran has the same schtick over n over
Fran, you look so natural there.
I enjoyed and appreciated this post of a particular Morgan Library trip. Not being an intellectual, I thought there was a contradiction - maybe purposeful, maybe irrelevant to you - that art should be useless, but then, great writers influence people whether they know it or not and we must read these particular great writers. And you referred to great writers as artists. I just found that interesting, and yes it influenced me in some way.
I feel like these could be much longer
I adore Fran Lebowitz.
Thank you, Fran!
Will go, Fran!
Without gloves? Oh my God.
Amazing enlightenments! I could listen to Fran talk all day long.
Divine. Thank you.
Fran, although she’d probably cringe at what I’m going to write, is a national treasure.
I think everybody is cringing at your remark.
I'm not cringing.
She’s also a New York treasure.
She’s second only to Bernie Goetz.
I think this was clipped from a longer video.
Two kinds of people in NYC, those who have books and those who have room for it.
I'm not sure which book has influenced me most in life but I'm positive which preface has
Love this convo! Love you Fran! Thank you!
Thank you Fran. You are one of our treasures as well.
She’s for sure one of my favorite people ❤
When I first saw her on a talk show, I thought she was Fran Lively-wits.
❤
In Netflix who is main character in pretend its a City?
Yes. She’s the focus of that program.
Anything with Fran is moist! Love her
Fran Lebowitz wrote some stuff early in her career but I think in the last 40 or 50 years she has just given talks. Does she talk from an outline or just improvise?
what is she talking about "wit cannot be the product of effort" as she's looking down on the manuscript of Dorian Grey full of crossed out words and rewritten passages?
4:27 😍 Heaven might be real, after all.
Correct. Reading gets so little respect, here 6/19/2024. Wit? So much less.❤
I wonder why she says it's unusual Mark Twain being the most popular writer and also a great writer are not lots of best selling authors great that's why they sell so many copies?
Mark Twain of course took the "voice" of "Huck Finn" from his shoe-shine moments talking with a young Black man who regaled him with stories and frank rapport. "If I'd a-knowed what a trouble it was to make a book, I warn't never a-tackled it, and I ain't a-goin' to no more."
“Art is useless.”
It’s also one of the few things we seek to preserve. Or destroy. This feels like a statement a writer might tell themself to get out of their own head. Patently nonsense, though. Art is literally the only reason we know most historical events and cultures, their values, their norms, their commonalities and foibles, their in groups and out groups, their gods and their devils, why they went to war or chose to die. It’s everything we’ve ever worked to make. That’s like saying life is useless. To its own end, yes. It’s made use OF, though, categorically. Perhaps that frightens some who spend their life in service of it. Seems like cowardice to me. Art will be made use of regardless of what you sought to create it for, even if you thought it was for nothing. If it gets banned, that tells you everything. You don’t ban a thing for being idle.
Thank you for this excellent explanation.
By art being "useless," she means it's not utilitarian, but purely hedonic.
Fran Lebowitz is just another know-it-all boomer
Fewer of us every day. You're gonna miss us when we're gone, and you youngsters won't have anyone around to tell you how to do or understand stuff...
@@garyspence2128 I'm 50 years old. I've heard it all at this point. Most everything your generation has blabbered has been either bunk, or just re-hashing bits of pop culture from when you were in your teens and 20s. You bitched and moaned about your parents, and now your bitching and moaning about 'kids today'. Meanwhile, you took credit for things you didn't do, all while doing your best to make the world a more polluted, stinking place.
@@garyspence2128 I'm in my mid-40s. The entire public educational system has been destroyed by your generation. Nobody is learning s#it from you guys, unless it's how to serve jesus and corporate America, or about tired pop cutler from the 60s.
@@garyspence2128 I can reassure you, no one's going to miss your sorry, hedonistic, irresponsible asses. Bye bye.
Yup look at the prices she sells her photographs for.
I eat up whatever this woman says
“Art is useless.”
misleading title!
insufferable