Fran Lebowitz

I think each of us made like 50 cents.

Well, this wasn't the 60s, this was the 70s.

During that period of like the early 70s, like 70, 71, I worked sometimes five, sometimes six days a week, but I never worked on Wednesdays because on Wednesdays, the Village Voice came out and the Village Voice had a thousand Hope Wanted ads in the back.

So whatever bad job, one thing about New York in the 70s, there were a zillion bad jobs.

You could get a different bad job every week.

It was very easy to get a bad job.

So I would look in the one ads, because I always hated whatever bad job I had, and I would think, I'll get a different bad job, one I prefer.

So I saw an ad that said, wanted for underground newspaper, advertising salesman.

So I thought, a magazine, it's a magazine, it's a newspaper.

I could write for this magazine if I get this job.

So I applied for this job.

I beat out several qualified people.

And I started writing for the magazine.

But very few people read this magazine.

We called them underground newspapers.

They weren't underground, really.

They were quarter-fold newspapers.

But I had a friend who wrote for Interview.

And I thought, I asked him, can you get me an appointment with the editor of Interview?

Because I'd like to also write for Interview.