The Strangely Soothing Power of Fran Lebowitz’s New York

It’s Fran’s world; why can’t we all live in it?

Meghan Daum
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7 min readJan 13, 2021

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Fran Lebowitz and Diane von Furstenberg at a party in New York City, 2008. Photo: Billy Farrell/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images

After seven days of wallowing in the contaminated sludge of the news cycle, I finally found refuge last night. I spent hours in the company of a 69-year-old woman walking around New York City—unmasked, in the days just before Covid-19—holding forth about everything that annoys her: people…

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Meghan Daum
GEN
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