A Drinking Companion: Alcohol and Writers' Lives

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Summary: All these writers I hadn't even heard of
Review: A great read. I heard about this book when the author was interviewed on NPR a while back. Not sure what attracted me to "A Drinking Companion." I guess I wanted to figure out if it was that writers are such creative beings that the only way they can handle that creativity and life is by losing themselves to drink. Or perhaps I was trying to figure out how these great writers were able to produce such incredible works of literature? I'm not sure I have the answers to these questions, but I certainly know a lot more about the lives of these tortured souls -- and what they went through to deliver their works of art to readers. I especially liked being introduced to Dashiell Hammett and Marguerite Duras.