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Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
His digital footprint was itty-bitty, and it was clear that he had built a life that was more IRL than URL. How fucking sexy.
Ryan O'Connell • Just by Looking at Him: A Novel

Ghost Hero: A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novel (Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Novels Book 11)
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For the uninitiated, I have been hosting a call-in radio show for the last twenty years called The Best Show. While most of the callers are real, Jon and I write and perform funny scripted calls within the body of the show. Jon will dial in as any number of beloved creations, like Philly Boy Roy (a lovable Rocky-loving meathead from Philadelphia) o
... See moreTom Scharpling • It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!
I had come to New York five years earlier, to create a life for myself there. I had not created a life for myself there. I had wanted to find the emerging writers and thinkers of my generation. I had found the sycophants, careerists, and media parasites who were redefining mediocrity for the 21st century.
n+1 • The Face of Seung-Hui Cho (Kindle Single) (Kindle Singles Book 4)
I’ve found that the way to capture the truth of a character—and beyond that, to reflect the truth of how I feel—is to write microscopically. To focus on all the tiny details that, together, make sense of character.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
In a prime spot just across the yellow-tape road from the lemon trees, he tended his own dark grove of bookshelves, and beside them a field of legal boxes, which held thousands of menus from restaurants famous and obscure. Whenever I passed Horace’s collection, there was someone flipping through the menus with the furious intensity of a DJ digging
... See moreRobin Sloan • Sourdough
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