Fran Lebowitz appears Sunday, February 18, at Benaroya Hall. Credit: BRIGITTE LACOMBE

Fran Lebowitz appears Sunday, February 18, at Benaroya Hall.

Fran Lebowitz appears this Sunday at Benaroya Hall. BRIGITTE LACOMBE

The good news is: Writer, social commentator, wit, and wag Fran Lebowitz is coming to Seattle to entertain questions. The bad news is… pretty much everything else. So let’s focus on her.

Since the success of her two essay collections, Metropolitan Life (1978) and Social Studies (1981), Lebowitz has been less visible as a writer than as a public speaker. In 2010, Martin Scorsese released a documentary about her called Public Speaking, in which she can be seen doing exactly what she’ll be doing at Benaroya Hall on February 18: being interviewed onstage for a half hour or so (usually by a local journalist, though in the movie she gets Toni Morrison), then taking questions from the audience for about an hour.

Sean Nelson has worked at The Stranger on and off since 1996. He is currently Editor-at-Large. His past job titles included: Assistant Editor, Associate Editor, Film Editor, Copy Editor, Web Editor, Slog...