Posts Tagged ‘Waiter Rant’
Daily Food Blog Roundup: Extreme Blogging
Let’s start the week with the online equivalent of wingsuit flying: Bloggers willing to tear down institutions and destroy old ideas. Hey, if we desk jockeys can’t exercise anymore, then we might as well get our endorphin rush from little shots of e-schadenfreude.
- Less Is Enough chronicles Day 27 of a campaign to eat for a month on $1 a day. LIE got all pissed off after reading one couple’s struggle to do the same thing and decided to prove that the vegans were just amateur ascetics (and lousy cooks).
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:
