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A Door, Not A Mirror

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A Door, Not A Mirror

What are books for? Fran Lebowitz tells us

Rod Dreher
Jan 27, 2021
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A Door, Not A Mirror

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That’s a subtitled still from Episode Seven of Pretend It’s A City, Martin Scorsese’s chipper documentary series about Fran Lebowitz, now playing on Netflix. In this clip, Fran is talking about how reading liberated her as a child growing up in suburban New Jersey, introducing her to so many different worlds. She says that nowadays, young people whine t…

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