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Another NY Time review.  (should be unlocked link) 

 

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I’d have loved it if I were 17. The author goes all in on Bourdain’s angst, his instinctive distrust of authority, his hero-worship of talented outsiders like Hunter S. Thompson and Iggy Pop and William S. Burroughs.

The older me, the one who prefers wine to fizz, wishes Leerhsen had more to say about things like: a) the elite and vernacular food worlds pre- and post-Bourdain; b) how Bourdain walked a moral tightrope across the conventions of travel writing and reporting, no mean feat for a wealthy white man in skinny jeans; and c) the sense that he was at the vanguard, more so than even the most scrutinized actors, of a new type of American masculinity. Here was an outdoor, rather than an indoor, cat.

You can’t have everything. Leerhsen sacrifices weight for speed.

 

 

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Clean-up! :-)

Another review from NY Times.   (should be free to all)

 

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I’d have loved it if I were 17. The author goes all in on Bourdain’s angst, his instinctive distrust of authority, his hero-worship of talented outsiders like Hunter S. Thompson and Iggy Pop and William S. Burroughs.

The older me, the one who prefers wine to fizz, wishes Leerhsen had more to say about things like: a) the elite and vernacular food worlds pre- and post-Bourdain; b) how Bourdain walked a moral tightrope across the conventions of travel writing and reporting, no mean feat for a wealthy white man in skinny jeans; and c) the sense that he was at the vanguard, more so than even the most scrutinized actors, of a new type of American masculinity. Here was an outdoor, rather than an indoor, cat.

You can’t have everything. Leerhsen sacrifices weight for speed.

 

 

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Another review from NY Times. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/03/books/review/charles-leerhsen-anthony-bourdain.html?unlocked_article_code=bmVV1I809Pf3wHcA5j_19PtBQYRw76gYyj_2vdzskGu2xoSvHDU6Sf4m-edmnpLud_SD-PeT2DtA4R_YmNijrCEflCBhLCbzhfw0uK4etLf6jy_8PpVgvelX9A4-BhEW-5--WXp1791kYEl9xq9HItNwnkwQ2OSbKj_N92X2QsjaQVXWhJxJKD3ub3v3OezqQBjkmQWYE6IaSC0frew1-d3Rk-YNZbO2HVOVO7YGl34UuxKYiQCQjqpY_lxi48oHcfXjuRAP_bjbI3AvgZgiKGIXr3Jy0QNq_i9szAmpnesYroEMK3AjufRCxGWhHh6lKQlnRegYyxai3W9r7qt2AoJ5Omy3C1sGr8WCXK3oYTs&smid=share-url

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I’d have loved it if I were 17. The author goes all in on Bourdain’s angst, his instinctive distrust of authority, his hero-worship of talented outsiders like Hunter S. Thompson and Iggy Pop and William S. Burroughs.

The older me, the one who prefers wine to fizz, wishes Leerhsen had more to say about things like: a) the elite and vernacular food worlds pre- and post-Bourdain; b) how Bourdain walked a moral tightrope across the conventions of travel writing and reporting, no mean feat for a wealthy white man in skinny jeans; and c) the sense that he was at the vanguard, more so than even the most scrutinized actors, of a new type of American masculinity. Here was an outdoor, rather than an indoor, cat.

You can’t have everything. Leerhsen sacrifices weight for speed.

 

 

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