Anthony Bourdain: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations

J'ai bien aimé lire ce livre (j'ai lu la version en anglais). Cependant, il y a plusieurs répétitions d'une entrevue à l'autre et on n'apprend pas autant de choses sur Bourdain qu'on pourrait s'y attendre. Certains interviewers prennent beaucoup de place. Lecture rapide et agréable tout de même.

This was terrible. An obvious attempt to profit from Tony’s death. Don’t buy

These people should be banned for taken advantage of Bourdain's death. I hope somebody sues them. There are exactly 6 pages of interviews from 2018. All the rest are from Bourdain's well documented early days. Shame on the author and the publisher. I want my money back.

So great to see Tony in this series of heroes! Plus, as I was reading it, I realized he was speaking more about himself than he tended to do in the shows, so I felt like I was seeing sides of him I hadn't seen before. Just made me like him and miss him all the more. This is also a really thoughtfully put together collection, spanning his career. You can actually see him grow and deepen. Like my favorite episodes of his shows, I will go back to this one again and again for the pleasure of his humble intellectualism and fantastic sense of humor. Also: the really moving and insightful introduction by New Yorker writer Helen Rosner -- a friend of Bourdain's -- is worth the price of admission in itself.

I bought this book hoping to learn more about the more recent Anthony Bourdain (post-chef life), and I like the interviews I've been able to read. My copy is missing pages 44-61, going straight from an interview with Jill Dupleix to the middle of an interview with Neil Degrasse Tyson, and there are more editing errors in the Dupleix interview than should be printed. I've reached out to the publisher about those, but I wasn't sure if anyone else's copy was missing pages, too. Just a heads-up!