Oh, welcome back to the Book Ride Podcast. It's weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool,

and we're talking about in the world of books and reading. I'm Jeff O'Neill here

with Rebecca Schinsky. We're coming to you recording live to the increasingly

unuseful metaphor of tape.

Live to a series of tubes.

Live to the cloud, I guess, maybe.

On Thursday, June 24th, we're going to do half the show, kind of a normal show of talking

about what's going on in the world, and then the back half of the show. We're going to spend a few minutes talking about what's going on in the world and then the back of the show we're going to spend a few minutes talking about

Crying in H-Mart by Michelle's owner

Which came out and I think it's having a bit of a moment's can be made into a TV show and other things going on so

Oppreciant time to talk about that Rebecca. How are you? I'm good. We're having a little summer like not quite cold snap, but it was cooler than 60 degrees when I woke up this morning in Virginia

Which is lovely and it's been a nice it has been a nice week. I am reading a digital galley of the new oral biography of Anthony

Bordane that his longtime assistant Lori Willever put together.

Which when you mentioned world travel or world traveler,

I can't remember what the title is of the world travel book.

World travel.

When we were doing our you know sort of honorable mentions for faves of the year so far it

reminded me that this was coming out and that I had seen it on Adelvice so I you know

clicked a few buttons and made my way there. And it is wonderful. Oh good. She yeah, she interviewed like a hundred people from across Bourdain's life like folks who were friends of his when he was a kid, folks who worked with him in

restaurants before he got famous, his first wife Nancy, his second wife, Otavia, his mother,

his brother, like all sorts of folks.

Eric Repaire is in there and it moves up from around like late high school age

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