The only thing it’s going to do for you these days is increase your odds of getting mugged. That crowd-sourced bonanza has made the printed guidebook an anachronism. It’s easier to find an abundance of online information on the best chicken rice in such-and-such covered food court in Singapore than it is to figure how to adequately save for retirement. I could watch those on a loop.Īside from sports news and general bile, no topic is better served by the internet than where to eat. It did have the salutary effect of sending me back to his shows. Reading what Bourdain once said aloud just made me miss Bourdain.
Along with Martin Scorsese, he was the early 21st-century’s master of the voiceover monologue.īut untethered from the man, even his best lines land flat on the page. The result is something between a Frommer’s Guide and Schopenhauer’s Essays and Aphorisms.īourdain was a better writer than he was a TV host, which is saying something.
Written with his longtime assistant Laurie Woolever, the writer who also co-authored his. Using scripts he wrote for his shows, she has compiled a compendium of Bourdain’s thoughts about the places he visited. A book that the late Anthony Bourdain was working on before his death will be published on October 13. His former assistant, Laurie Woolever, talked to him about the specifics of it for only an hour. World Travel was a vague idea when Bourdain died by suicide in 2018.
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