“Fran Lebowitz’s trademark is the sneer; she disapproves of virtually everything except sleep, cigarette smoking, and good furniture. Her essays and topical interviews on subjects ranging from difficulty of finding an acceptable apartment to the art of freeloading at weekend houses have come to be regarded as classic of literary humor and social observation.”
– The Paris Review
“Before the amusements of…The Onion or Sex and the City, there was Fran Lebowitz: the single inheritor to the smart-not-smarmy, sarcastic, cosmopolitan crown left by Dorothy Parker.”
– Philadelphia City Paper
“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.”
- New York Times