Gyles Brandreth
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Older people mentioned the great American James Baldwin, who had an incredible way with words.
And I know our guest today, well, she was an admirer of James Baldwin.
Somebody mentioned Stephen Fry.
Well, he's certainly remarkable.
He's already been a guest on Rosebud.
Well, today's guest is a woman.
She's a New Yorker.
She's a phenomenon.
She is Fran Leibovitz.
She's a cultural critic.
She's a public speaker.
She's an author today with Writer's Block, famous for her books, Metropolitan Life, Social Studies, The Fran Lebowitz Reader.
And then she really stopped writing.
She was a journalist.
She worked, for example, on Andy Warhol's Interview magazine.
I don't know that she got on that well with Andy Warhol.
You'll discover as you listen to our conversation with one of the great talkers of our time.
I feel very privileged.
I saw the Martin Scorsese documentary series about her and I thought, this is a woman I want to meet.
And now I am.