Fran Lebowitz

So he did.

It was very easy to get this appointment.

And that's how I started writing for Interview.

But was he there?

Yes, but at that point that I started working there, he did not own it.

It was owned by this guy, Peter Brandt, who owned it on and off various times.

People, kids ask me, was it the tinfoil factory?

No, that was in the 60s.

I'm not that old.

It was on Union Square.

It was...

initially on union square west when i went there the first time and i went up an elevator and when the doors opened the elevator there was a steel door and behind it and there was a piece of legal paper on it that someone wrote knock loudly and announce yourself so i bang on the door someone said who's there i said valerie solanas that was the woman who shot andy oh andy opened the door

So, right away I think, this is a genius.

I say I'm the person who shot him, and he opens the door.

Okay, first of all, I have to tell you something.

I was really surprised to see him.

Because even though it's called Andy Warhol's interview, and it's a factory, I'm not thinking at all of Andy.

I'm thinking, I hope he can get this job ready.

And so...

Then he asked me, what was I there for?