More than four years have passed since the death of Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in June 2018 while on location in France filming his CNN series, Parts Unknown. Since then, questions about his death have fueled explorations of the late chef's life and work. On October 11, we'll see the release of what's reportedly the first unauthorized biography of Bourdain: Charles Leerhsen's Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain, published by Simon & Schuster. On Tuesday, The New York Times published a preview of the book, which details Leerhsen's reporting of the biography, many of the sources who spoke to the author for the book (and some who refused), and texts Bourdain sent in his final days. According to the Times, Bourdain's family is already unhappy with the book, with his brother, Christopher, emailing the publisher in August, "calling the book hurtful and defamatory fiction, and demanding that it not be released until Mr. Leerhsen's many errors were corrected."
More than four years have passed since the death of Anthony Bourdain, who died by suicide in June 2018 while on location in France filming his CNN series, Parts Unknown. Since then, questions about his death have fueled explorations of the late chef's life and work. On October 11, we'll see the release of what's reportedly the first unauthorized biography of Bourdain: Charles Leerhsen's Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain, published by Simon & Schuster. On Tuesday, The New York Times published a preview of the book, which details Leerhsen's reporting of the biography, many of the sources who spoke to the author for the book (and some who refused), and texts Bourdain sent in his final days. According to the Times, Bourdain's family is already unhappy with the book, with his brother, Christopher, emailing the publisher in August, "calling the book hurtful and defamatory fiction, and demanding that it not be released until Mr. Leerhsen's many errors were corrected." |
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| A new book takes a hard look at white supremacy's central role in teaching history in America. |
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Mark Zuckerberg has managed to do something no tech company has done before: make virtual reality an affordable product that consumers want to buy. With this in mind, Meta is already pushing a new suite of social and productivity apps, starting with Horizon Worlds and Workrooms, designed to let you hang with friends, attend concerts and sporting events, and hold remote business meetings. The apps are free, run on the Quest 2, and are built from the ground up for virtual reality. They also, perhaps most importantly, use a single unified avatar—a customizable digital representation of yourself that you embody in these new, virtual spaces. If you and your avatar are going to be seamlessly flitting between work meetings and VR concerts, shopping trips and hanging out with friends, then you can't be expected to do it all in the same outfit. If the metaverse is about being seen—and it is about being seen—then fashion should be one of its killer apps. |
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Because an extra place to put your stuff is never a bad idea. |
| In an edited excerpt from his new book, The Breach, a former committee senior advisor details how investigators sifted through an avalanche of information. |
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Each day, I thank sweet Christ I don't have a son. It's not as though I think little girls (or the women they become) are somehow more evolved or admirable than little boys (or the men they become). Of course, I can talk only about my experiences, both with our daughter and our friends' children. But these experiences have nevertheless allowed me to deduce that little boys are tiny but efficient engines of parental misery. As hard as living with little boys can be, raising a teenage girl may be parenthood's most harrowing gauntlet of all. Male aggression develops early and expands outward, eagerly finding enemies. Female aggression develops late and bends inward, toward the most sophisticated, implacable foe of all—the self. Forget watching the unwatchable. With teenage daughters, you must notice the unseeable. For their sake, and for yours. |
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