![]() When you call her for an interview, you’re told to start leaving a message. She does, however, have an answering machine. “I’d have to have a Wi-Fi connection, which I don’t,” she said. She is suspect of much modern technology. And Mark Twain, too, in his more acerbic moments. But there is a little Oscar Wilde thrown in there. Humorist Fran Lebowitz appears in “An Evening With Fran Lebowitz” at the Aronoff Center on April 12.īecause her humor has plenty of bite to it, Lebowitz is often compared to Dorothy Parker, the early 20th Century satirist and a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. And what could be better than being in the same room with her, even if it’s a room that seats 2,700 people. In some ways, these stage shows are even better than her written commentaries. In time, her talking grew to encompass all manner of appearances, including film work with Scorsese – “Marty,” she calls him – and presentations like the one she’ll do here. ![]() When we spoke, this was the one subject I was forbidden to ask about.īut all of those incisive observations about the world continued bouncing around in her head and had to go somewhere. Writer’s “blockade,” she’s called it, though not to me. She’s observant and smart and savagely witty – a delicious combination unless you’re on the receiving end of it.Īfter a decade of writing commentaries about life in NYC and compiling those columns into a pair of best-selling books – “Metropolitan Life” (1978) and “Social Studies” (1981) – she developed an infamously profound case of writer’s block. And she does it in the most extraordinarily entertaining fashion. Or read from her books.īut she will talk. On April 12, she’ll be here, in Cincinnati, performing “An Evening With Fran Lebowitz” at the Aronoff Center’s Procter & Gamble Hall. A 2020 profile in “The New Yorker” described her as “the patron saint of staying at home and doing nothing.” But for someone so determined to avoid the mainstream of modern life, Lebowitz has a curious way of constantly being in the thick of it. She is a successful author, too, but it’s been 40 years since her last book of essays.Īnd as for fame, she doesn’t seem to pursue it as much as she does attract it. She is something of a star, for instance, the central subject of Martin Scorsese’s Netflix series “Pretend It’s a City.” But she says she’s never viewed Netflix, except to catch a snippet or two at friends’ homes. But that doesn’t really explain why she is such a revered. Lebowitz says being able to make new discoveries through clinical and neurobiological research and helping children and families is what makes him passionate about his work.Author, humorist and star of Netflix’s “Pretend It’s a City,” Fran Lebowitz brings her show, “An Evening With Fran Lebowitz” to the Aronoff Center on April 12. SPACE has been tested and found to be effective in randomized controlled clinical trials. He also developed a parent-based treatment program for children and adolescents with anxiety, OCD, and related problems called SPACE ( Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions). Lebowitz is the lead investigator on multiple research projects, and is the author of numerous research papers and of books and chapters on childhood and adolescent anxiety. His research focuses on the development, neurobiology, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, with special emphasis on cross-generational and familial influences in these disorders. “I enjoy helping children and families impacted by anxiety problems and discovering new ways to treat these problems.” ![]() “Anxiety disorders are the most treatable problems in mental health,” Lebowitz says. Eli Lebowitz, PhD, is a child and adolescent psychologist and director of the Yale Child Study Center’s Anxiety and Mood Disorders Program.
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