The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller - Virago Modern Classics (Paperback)

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

Fran Lebowitz is the rare example of a legend living up to her own mythology. She really is THAT funny - Hadley Freeman

In a world of humming, hawing, couching and obfuscating, there's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz - Caroline O’Donoghue

Unique .... Lebowitz offers vocational guides for aspiring heiresses, popes, empresses; manuals for landlords; guidance to the rich who wish to meet the poor - Vogue

The funniest woman in America - Washington Post

Despite now being over 40 years old, the essays still glitter, every bone-dry sentence pared down and packed with her unmistakeable personality - Hadley Freeman, Guardian

A forcefield of comic self-certainty in a world of anxious uncertainty - Guardian

Right on the mark ... Among the things she hates ... baggage-claim areas, high tech, after-shave lotion, adults who roller skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan - Newsweek

Hilarious ... an unlikely and perhaps alarming combination of Mary Hartman and Mary McCarthy.... To a dose of Huck Finn add some Lenny Bruce, Oscar Wilde and Alexis de Tocqueville, a dash of cabdriver, an assortment of puns, minced jargon, and top it off with smarty pants - The New York Times

'the most well-connected iconoclast since Dorothy Parker' - Jane Mulkerrins, The Times

In a world of humming, hawing, couching and obfuscating, there's nothing more refreshing than a dose of Fran Lebowitz - Caroline O'Donoghue

A marvellous raconteur, full of wit, wisdom and rebellion. Genuinely one of the funniest people in the world - Irenosen Okojie

As witty, original, and impeccably discerning as the woman herself, The Fran Lebowitz Reader is a modern classic set to be read for generations to come - Otegha Uwagba