{"id":139200582,"date":"2023-12-08T13:30:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=139200582"},"modified":"2023-12-08T13:30:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:30:27","slug":"friday-links-i-got-a-poem-published-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/?p=139200582","title":{"rendered":"Friday Links: I Got A Poem Published Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

“How much longer am I going to do this? I don’t know. I *love* it, you see.” – Anthony Bourdain, ‘Kitchen Confidential’<\/h2>

But first, your reminder that <\/em>Vine<\/a> is finished! But still exists<\/a>! Even in audiobook form<\/a>! Read it if you haven\u2019t! <\/em><\/p>

Did you know that there are a lot of good books? Like mountains of truly excellent writing? Noirvember technically ended day before last week\u2019s boxing<\/a>, and I had one<\/em> more <\/em>detective novel that was going to bridge into a sci-fi novel by the same author. Life got in the way, and both of those had to wait. Instead, I finished something I deeply love, something that I\u2019d spent a month or so reading chapters on the sly for WIP writing inspiration. So Noirvember gets a two-week extension. <\/p>

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What I\u2019ve Been Reading This Week: <\/strong><\/p>

Is this book noir? Would this count for Noirvember<\/em>? Of course it does. If boxing is \u201cthe red light district of sports,\u201d as Joyce Carol Oates quoted someone as putting it<\/a>, restaurant work is the red light district of work. If that metaphor actually works, idk. Anyway, knowing the author\u2019s irrepressible nerdiness for all things hardboiled, he\u2019d appreciate being included in Noirvember. I\u2019m talking, of course, about Kitchen Confidential<\/em> by Anthony Bourdain. <\/p>

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Let\u2019s start with what I love about this book: this is a capital-R-W Romantic Writer who is passionately devoted to their work. I love reading someone passionate about their work. Especially when their work is food, a thing I am also passionate about, but in a home cook, at-my-happiest-throwing-a-cookout kind of way. Do not doubt Bourdain\u2019s writing, either: his prose absolutely sings, it\u2019s somehow breezy and maximalist at the same time. I also think Bourdain and I are the same type of nerd. Just as Tony thinks it\u2019s cool to do whole TV episodes as homages to movies he likes, so to do I have an affinity for punk rock and street food. <\/p>

Regarding the more unpleasant aspects of this very<\/em> turn-of-the-century memoir: well, yeah. Reading this book in a post-Trump, post-COVID world is jarring. Bourdain said later in life\u2014especially as he was leaning hard into #MeToo crusading\u2014that he regretted huge chunks of this book, especially glorifying the sexism and \u201clocker room talk<\/a>\u201d of kitchens. I don\u2019t know if he ever spoke on the glorification of 80-hour work days and demonization of calling in sick (I should say here I haven\u2019t read any of his other books, though you know I will). Personally, I read Kitchen Confidential<\/em> in 2010 and didn\u2019t bat enough of an eye. Luckily, I\u2019m a different person than I was in 2010\u2014similarly strong opinions, but less interested in fighting about them. Hard-edged Bourdain is fun, but I\u2019m glad he evolved. By extension, I\u2019m glad the world\u2019s a different place now. In our public discussions of both sexism and labor rights. <\/p>

LINKS!<\/strong><\/p>

Something to listen to? How bout this delightfully endearing video of the suburbs, \u201cReal Nice Moment\u201d by KNOWER. Everything is produced by Louis Cole, of Thundercat\u2019s \u201cI Love Louis Cole\u201d<\/a> fame. I might love Louis Cole, too, I don\u2019t know, haven\u2019t done enough research. <\/p>

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