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“Tony,” “Late Fame,” and the Rocky Road to Literary Stardom
['Justin Chang']
The New Yorker
Bourdain was in his forties when “Kitchen Confidential” was published, and “Tony” ends with that career-igniting milestone still decades away.
“Late Fame,” an exquisitely wry and melancholic new drama from the director Kent Jones, approaches the puzzle of a writer’s life and art from the opposite direction.
Nearly fifty years later, Saxberger’s early burst of literary promise is long forgotten, as are the poems themselves.
A crinkly smile steals across Saxberger’s careworn face, but it’s chased away by genuine shock (“Is this some kind of joke?”
After some initial reluctance, Saxberger finds himself in a Greenwich Village coffee shop where Meyers and his group regularly hang out.