{"id":13796,"date":"2010-09-30T01:24:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2010-09-30T01:27:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:27:55","slug":"interview-with-assholes-finish-first-author-tucker-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/30\/interview-with-assholes-finish-first-author-tucker-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with ‘Assholes Finish First’ author Tucker Max"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Author Tucker Max. (Gallery Books)<\/p><\/div>\n

<\/a>By JQ <\/em>magazine<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>(CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page<\/em> here<\/a><\/strong> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2006, Duke Law School grad Tucker Max published I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell<\/em>, a real life roundup of his drunken, sexual misadventures that unexpectedly shot him to the top of the New York Times <\/em>Best Seller list and cemented him as the leader of the \u201cfratire\u201d (male chick lit) literary genre.<\/p>\n

Following last year\u2019s release of the film version of IHTSBIH<\/em>, Max is back with a new digest of debauchery, Assholes Finish First<\/em>. The book\u2019s launch\u00a0this week kicked off a coast to coast 34-date signing tour, and I spoke with the controversially hilarious\u00a0author about his interest in Japan and future plans.<\/p>\n

What kinds of things do you enjoy about Japanese culture?<\/strong>
\nWell, obviously, I love Japanese food. My favorite TV show of all time, without exception, is Iron Chef<\/em>. Not the stupid American version; Iron Chef <\/em>Japanese, like, the real one; the one that was on in Japan\u2026my DVR for years was set to record almost every single Iron Chef <\/em>episode. I can talk to you about Battle Porcini<\/a>, when [Chef Masaharu] Morimoto did the porcini cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e\u2026the original Iron Chef <\/em>is, quite literally, along with The Wire<\/em>, my favorite TV show of all time.<\/p>\n

Have you ever been\u00a0to any of Morimoto\u2019s restaurants?<\/strong>
\nI actually know Morimoto pretty well. Like, in a total weird coincidence, his restaurant in Philadelphia, Morimoto\u2019s\u2026the GM of that place for a couple of years was my buddy Paul Ardaji. So Paul knew that I loved Iron Chef<\/em> Japan; he brought me in one night [with] Morimoto and we had dinner. And Morimoto, for whatever weird reason, like, we kind of hit it off and became friends. And Morimoto actually did a charity event with me in New York.<\/p>\n

And this is a true story…this [is] actually going into my third book; it\u2019s not in the second book. But Morimoto and I\u2014it was basically like we were supposed to be, like, celebrity bartenders, and so of course everyone wanted us to mix, like, cool shots and stuff\u2026so we did it like Iron Chef<\/em>. He would have them pick an ingredient so people would bring, like, nacho chips over from the kitchen, and then he would make a shot with nacho chips that was, like, amazing\u2026we got fu*kin\u2019 plowed. Anyway, long story short, one guy over there got belligerently drunk, and he got into kind of like into a scuffle with one of the bartenders who worked there, and ended up getting me and him kicked out of my own charity event\u2026I could not have been, like, more happy that I got kicked out of something with Iron Chef <\/em>Japan when I\u2019m not Japanese; it was the best.<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By JQ magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories. In 2006, Duke Law School grad Tucker Max published I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, a real life roundup of his drunken, sexual misadventures that unexpectedly shot him to the top of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,40,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-books","category-interviewprofile"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3Aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13796"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13799,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions\/13799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}