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Book Review of Social Studies

Social Studies
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I, personally, had a great time reading "Social Studies." The fact that it's a title from when I was a child made it especially appealing, since I always wondered what "the big deal was" about Fran Lebowitz. The person I swapped this with was correct: A recent TV series spurred my renewed interest in learning more about Lebowitz's writing. Anyone who's watched or is watching it won't be surprised by what they read here--though they will find her earlier thoughts to be a bit more free-form or free-flowing. This set of essays is exactly what it sounds like: a group of musings and observances about society and how we function (or might) as humans sharing sometimes close quarters.