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.