Episode 146: A Conversation With Laurie Woolever About Anthony Bourdain
On this episode I chat with Laurie Woolever. Laurie Woolever is a writer and editor, and New York Times bestselling author who spent nearly a decade assisting Anthony Bourdain, with whom she coauthored Appetites: A Cookbook and New York Times #1 bestseller World Travel: An Irreverent Guide. She has written about food and travel for the New York Times, GQ, Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, Dissent, Roads & Kingdoms, and others, and has worked as an editor at Art Culinaire and Wine Spectator. Her most recent book New York Times bestseller Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography, was published by Ecco in September 2021. In the episode we talk about how she first met Anthony Bourdain and what it was like to write with him. We also talk about imposter syndrome, traveling the world, the work behind her books with Bourdain, the biography and much more. Link to Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography: https://www.amazon.com/Bourdain-Definitive-Biography-Laurie-Woolever/dp/006290910X/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=2N8I5FBXDPK2S&dchild=1&keywords=bourdain+the+definitive+oral+biography+by+laurie+woolever&qid=1633987987&s=books&sprefix=bourdain%2Caps%2C172&sr=1-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExS000VTVUOEpTWk5DJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMTU2ODgzMTNKUE5RS0IxWUJYJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAyMjA3OTgxQ1g3OU5BQjBITEVEJndpZGdldE5hbWU9c3BfYXRmJmFjdGlvbj1jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ== Check out the Blog at linecookthoughts.com Link to Donate to the WCK Fundraiser: https://donate.wck.org/fundraiser/3395142 Photo Credit to David Scott Holloway