he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
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he was who I wanted to be when I grew up. He’s one of the great nonfiction writers of our time, a genius of reportage and the profile, someone who could take any curious whim and turn it into a compelling book.
“He’s like Kanye,” said a Sam watcher who also spent time with Kanye West. “Wherever he goes, all this wild shit just happens.”
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Without being a writer himself, he could speak the language of writers better than any editor or publisher” one would ever meet.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
my literary agent, Andrew Wylie, who has far more important clients, yet still somehow manages the patience to answer what I’m sure are the dumbest questions he hears on any given day. Bless you both.
Scott Frank • Shaker: A novel
table. It was typical Kurt, diverting attention from himself to try to promote the unknown book of a friend, responding to a stranger’s well-meaning intrusion with grace, and taking leave of him with dignity, leaving both friend and fan well treated, living the commandment that he made his habit, to “Do unto others as you would have others do unto
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Bourdain taught me that culture is more than aesthetics. It’s how people survive. It’s what they sing when they’re hurting. It’s the rituals of joy in the middle of chaos. It’s rock shows and battered notebooks, food stalls and high art, leather jackets and hand-me-down wisdom.
He became his own fame, a fame that was interwoven with his masculinity. He became a human synecdoche for the condition of literary virility.