Listen in: 30 minute phone call with Fran Lebowitz

After spending thirty minutes speaking by phone [land line] to author Fran Lebowitz, TBTL host Luke Burbank said she has opinions about just about everything, and all of them are fascinating. (AP Photo)

After spending thirty minutes speaking by phone [land line] to author Fran Lebowitz, TBTL host Luke Burbank said she has opinions about just about everything, and all of them are fascinating.

Listen to conversation with Fran Lebowitz

In the conversation, covering what she had for lunch to how she became a documentary subject for Martin Scorcese, those both familiar and new to Lebowitz will find she is indeed a fascinator [not of the hat variety].

The author of two books and hundreds of articles does not own a computer or a cell phone, and said she even skipped over the typewriter.

“I have a natural lifelong antipathy to machines,” said Lebowitz. “I just have no interest or connection to machinery. I didn’t have the old machines. I didn’t replace the old machines with the new ones.”

When Burbank asked her what her average day looks like, Lebowitz said, “If I had my druthers which I don’t always, my average day is a night.”

“The day is something I could really live without,” said Lebowitz. “I often think at three in the morning, why isn’t this store open now, because now I feel ready to go.”

Lebowitz lives in an apartment where she said she has 8,500 books arranged in alphabetical order, and thinks she has a relatively healthy diet.

“However, as my doctor often points out, I smoke so it doesn’t matter.”

She said she’s geographically most happy when in Italy, and describes her relationship with her 1979 Checker Marathon [car] as the only monogamous relationship she’s ever had.

“I have one photograph displayed in my house, it’s of my car,” said Lebowitz.

Take a listen to Luke’s conversation with a woman he calls “completely unique.”

By JAMIE GRISWOLD, MyNorthwest.com Editor