Anthony Bourdain and the farce of the 'unauthorized' biography
- Written by Nigel Hamilton, Senior Fellow, McCormack Graduate School, UMass Boston
The circumstances of Bourdain’s death were bound to arouse curiosity.Ian West/PA Images via Getty Images“The agents of reticence,” wrote the English poet Ian Hamilton in “Keepers of the Flame,” “have no truck with the agents of disclosure.”
Thwarted by J.D. Salinger as he tried to write the story of the...





