Anthony Bourdain’s messy, brilliant life comes into focus in a new oral biography

Collectively, their stories and remembrances are heartbreaking, infuriating, inspiring, damning, loving and sometimes even disorienting. We learn over the course of more than 400 pages that the portrait Bourdain painted of himself — tough, empathetic, quick-witted, curious, damaged, competitive, no-nonsense — was just a sketch. So many shadings had yet to be filled in. The transparency that Bourdain implicitly promised us through his writings and shows, we come to find out, was far more opaque.

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