Interviewing strangers over a meal since 2008 (as featured in the Washington Post)
Far too late with posting this news, but food critic and radio host Tom Fitzmorris died on February 12 in his beloved hometown of New Orleans, at the age of 74. It was due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, NOLA.com reports. Tom was the 49th stranger interviewed for this site…
Writer Jonn Elledge, the utterly charming, smart and funny 131st dinner interviewee, was the first interview on this site in almost five years back in January. He discussed his book “A (Brief) History of the World in 47 Borders,” which at the time was only available in hardback or audiobook…
Gary Krist, a New York Times-bestselling writer of historical non-fiction and the 70th stranger I met, will be in DC next week to talk about his latest book. He’ll discuss Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco at Politics &…
More news about strangers I missed last year! Actor and writer Stephen Tobolowsky, perhaps best known as Ned Ryerson in “Groundhog Day,” continues to be one of the most prolific character actors working today. We met in October 2014 at an LA diner for the 66th interview, spending more than…
I’ll be doing the 131st and 132nd dinner interviews — the first in almost five years — next week in London. If you’d like to be featured on this site, simply click here to book a dinner and we’ll take it from there. In the meantime, I’ve been checking up…
Even when this site was on hold for the last few years, I’ve kept up on news from the strangers I met. And today’s update is about the last interview before pausing Dining With Strangers due to the pandemic and other things. Deborah VanTrece, the 130th stranger I dined with,…
Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I’m lining up interviews for restarting Dining With Strangers in 2025, with two hopefully taking place in London during my current trip back to the UK. From late January on, I’m looking for people in the United States — and…
Author Gary Krist — the 70th dinner interviewee back in 2015 — specializes in writing historical non-fiction about key moments in relatively recent U.S. history, including early 20th century New Orleans, Hollywood and more. I met the New York Times-bestselling writer to discuss Empire Of Sin, his book about the…
Want a free meal and to share your life story? Get in touch. I keep threatening this, but in 2025 Dining With Strangers will finally resume. I paused the site during the pandemic and then life intervened in the years since. Now I’m trying to sort out the first few…
Revolution Studios, the software company co-founded by 127th dinner interviewee Charles Cecil, is getting plaudits for the recently released Broken Sword: Reforged — an update to a landmark adventure game first released in 1996. The new version features remastered graphics, improved audio, reworked scenes and more to provide a fresh…