The Treatment

This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes writer Laurie Woolever, whose new book is ‘Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography’ about the late writer and television host Anthony Bourdain. Woolever was Bourdain’s assistant and collaborator before he died in 2018. She is also the co-host of the podcast ‘Carbface for Radio.” Woolever tells The Treatment that Bourdain wasn’t always the brash, outgoing person people saw on television. She says he was both deeply cynical and yet romantic. And she says that as open as he was about his flaws and his addictions, there were parts of himself that he held back from the public.

Writer Kelefa Sanneh on music’s relentless boundary blurring.

Writer and director Amy Koppelman on the same question all of her work attempts to answer.

Musician and actor, and author Steven Van Zandt on being in the right place at the right time.

Director Jeymes Samuel on the often ignored history of Black cowboys.

Director and actor Rebecca Hall on finding the language to understand her family’s complex history

Writer and director Mia Hansen-Løve on how cinema saved her life.

Director Ken Burns on the beauty and love of Muhammad Ali.

Ry Russo-Young on the inevitability of her role in her own documentary

Destin Daniel Cretton on working through personal issues through his films.