Posts Tagged ‘Steve Dublanica’
Waiter Rant: Truth or Creative Nonfiction?
I recently finished the engaging Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip–Confessions of a Cynical Waiter, the book that grew out of this anonymous blog dedicated to the hard-working, sometimes back-stabbing servers at an unnamed bistro in New York. The author, Steve Dublanica, has since outed himself in a New York Post interview, and New York magazine has since revealed that the anonymous restaurant is actually Lanterna Tuscan Bistro in Nyack, NY.
Among those who understand writing, the book generally gets lumped into the “creative nonfiction” category, but after reading Waiter Rant, cover to cover, I never once came across a passage that acknowledged Dublanica was making up scenes to underscore a point. And yet, time and again, I came across scenes that sent my bullshit detector into the red zone. Like this one:
