Writers and Rum: Why Authorship and Alcohol Have Gone Together : The New Yorker:
"The critic Olivia Laing has just published a good, sad book on this subject called “The Trip To Echo Spring: On Writers And Drinking,” which tells at length the mostly familiar but still melancholy stories of the drinking lives of Fitzgerald and Hemingway and Tennessee Williams and John Berryman and John Cheever and Raymond Carver, complete, it sometimes feels, with tipped-in napkin stains from each of their favorite bars."
Good review of a good book I happen to be reading now.
For my take, see Liquor and Lit.
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