Lindy West on Online Bullying, Eric Ripert Before Le Bernadin, What Your Waiter Really Thinks

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 13, 2016

Writer and editor Lindy West talks about her new book,  "Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman," a collection of personal essays about her life and coming-of-age from a quiet, self-conscious woman to a “feminist-out-loud.” Professional waiter-turned-writer Darron Cardosa dishes about 30 years working in food service in his book, The Bitchy Waiter. Award-winning chef Eric Ripert, co-owner of Le Bernardin, talks about his memoir 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line. 

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