The people you meet know things about you, ranging from the intimate to the mundane, like your soda preferences. It’s the odd, uncomfortable thing about memoir writing, something we appreciate must mirror the experience of so many of our TV-star interview subjects. In fact, he even has a ranking: Target and Chipotle have a “good mix” (syrup to carbonation ratio) Subway and 7-11 are subpar. Many people who know Ausiello and read his book arrive armed with quips about the borderline addiction to fountain Diet Coke he details. (Relax, it’s under control.) We both order drinks, sparing ourselves lame jokes about Diet Coke. Ausiello’s book is candid about a flirtation with excessive drinking. There’s an awkward, fleeting stare-down, for example, when the waitress asks if we’d like a cocktail. So there was something meta and slightly trippy about my dinner with fellow entertainment reporter and legendary TV news scoopster Michael Ausiello, whose cleverly (and devastatingly) titled memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words hits shelves Sept. The reporter-interviewee dynamic is always a weird one.
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