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  • Professional wit Fran Lebowitz, 2016
    In Fran Lebowitz: Books and writer’s blockade

    …were collected in the book Metropolitan Life, which was soon followed by another collection, Social Studies (1981). Both books were best sellers, and it was not long before Lebowitz signed a publisher’s contract, with a hefty advance, to write a novel called Exterior Signs of Wealth. However, she was gripped…

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