• There’s also an audiobook version, ‘ Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography’ (Harper Audio), featuring the voices of people Woolever interviewed. She recorded her interviews, then used the transcripts to create the manuscript, which was then read and recorded by the subjects. “I think that the audiobook contributes to the collective portrait of Tony in the way that the individual voices keep the story lively and engaging. He was a gifted storyteller long before he became famous as a writer and television host, and this oral format serves to reflect that legacy of storytelling, in the voices of his family, friends and colleagues,” she says.