Name: Fran Lebowitz On Her Contempt For Technology - "Late Night With Conan O'Brien"
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Especially since I understand you're going through a bit of a hard time right now.

A little bit of controversy about your Children's book.

Well, I've heard from a great number of panda experts.

Um, you're probably surprised as I was discovered.

There are a great number of panda experts on, uh, they have taken issue.

I actually chose pandas at random just as a fun animal to frolic with the Children, right?

I know so little about the natural world that I had no idea that they were even from China.

I mean, you could easily have convinced me that the lawns of Greenwich were filled with cavorting pandas.

It could have been squirrels, pandas, and, um, I started getting letters when the hardcover came out.

What are these panda experts mad about What?

feel that I have misrepresented the panda.

I mean, I've actually got letter to say Pandas don't eat pizza.

Pandas eat bamboo, which, in fact, is why they're rare.

Because there are apparently fewer and fewer bamboo trees.

That is right so clearly that he should eat pizza.

So I was obviously, which is another pull the wool over the eyes of the American public.

I once, um, wrote a piece for Newsweek about teenagers and where I made a disparaging remark about guidance counselors and I heard from about 80 million guidance counselors.

And I think there is really an equation to be made here.

I mean, concerning the fact that we need none.

Yeah, the fact that there are 80 million guidance counselors and an equal number of panda experts who I feel actually had been the students of these guidance councils.

I mean, if you learned a lesson next time, will you research the animal that No, you don't care?

You know, I actually, Um, offending panda experts really just rolls right off my back.

I don't have to appease the panda expert fashion.

In a similar vein, you've been working on the same novel now for quite a long time.

I feel that is important in this changing world.

And so I clearly chosen this book to be the thing in my life.

It depends on how much distraction there is.

I mean, I could spend months on the panda experts, So, um, I would say that I'm getting I'm getting toward the middle, okay?

No, I haven't been working on it for years and years has just been due for years and years.

Being a writer is just very much like being a high school student without, of course, the fun.

It's like always having a term paper due.

The only problem is, you can't do it the night before.

It's dio I know that since I've tried it twice eso just that I have poor working habits.

Now you've you've been writing real adult books, not riel adult books.

I should say that you've been writing adult books and you've been writing Children's book.

What is easier to dio, um, Children's books.

Uh, which is why we like them, is, uh, it's just easier because I'm childish.

Um, the whole thing is much less complicated, and there are pictures that take up a lot of space.

So what happens when what happens when you go on TV shows say, like this one And you say writing Children's books is easy, Easier, easier Do Children's book authors now get mad.

So, uh, all right, it's not that threatening.

We talked about this the last time you were on, but you don't like.

You don't You don't like having people around, do you?

No, you don't like having people in your home.

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