A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPowerful and profound EsquireUnbridled and unapologetic VogueWhen Anthony Bourdain died in 2018 fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man. Laurie Woolever Bourdains longtime assistant and confidante has interviewed nearly a hundred of the people who shared Tonys orbit in order to piece together a remarkably full vivid and nuanced vision of Tonys life and work.From his childhood and teenage days to his early years in New York through the genesis of his gamechanging memoir Kitchen Confidential to his emergence into fame and notoriety and in the words of friends and colleagues including Eric Ripert Jos Andrs and Nigella Lawson as well as his family we see the many sides of Tony his motivations his ambivalence his vulnerability his blind spots and his brilliance.Deeply intimate featuring a treasure trove of photos Bourdain In Stories is a testament to the life of a remarkable man in the words of the people who shared his world.