The Bar As Muse: Notes on ‘Come Here Often?’
The new anthology Come Here Often? features 53 writers on their favorite bars. The best of these essays are as enlightening and as entertaining as a candid conversation over a cold pint.(READ MORE)
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Raymond Carver
Nathan Gelgud illustrates the hardscrabble life described in Carol Sklenicka's biography 'Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life.' (READ MORE)
Alcohol and Creativity: A Journey to Understand Addiction in the Lives of 6 Great Writers
Olivia Laing is on a personal and literary quest in The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, which follows the influence of alcohol in the lives of John Berryman, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. (READ MORE)
Comfort, Company, and Good Cheer: A Q&A with Rosie Schaap
Rosie Schaap bellies up to the Biographile bar to talk women, culture, and drinking alone; what makes a great bar; and how to be a fantastic regular at your watering hole of choice.(READ MORE)
“Uncorked” Author on Drinking and Writing
You're a successful designer with a piece (a sideways rocking chair) in the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and your own design firm, and you've published a book on style and decorating. So the logical next step is immerse yourself in the irrational, highly-emotional world of wine retailing, and...(READ MORE)