Joy-of gift trilogy: sex, cooking, and now drinking
Barbara Holland wrote The Joy of Drinking to counter the rise of exercise, bottled water, and other joy-killers. (Via.)
Barbara Holland wrote The Joy of Drinking to counter the rise of exercise, bottled water, and other joy-killers. (Via.)
Nicholson Baker and Jonathan Lethem both compose first drafts in (my beloved) Courier. (Via.)
Jeff Byles’ Rubble tracks the history of demolition, and notes that the landfill underlying NYC’s FDR Drive consists largely of British WWII ruins.
The first two chapters of Somerset Maugham’s Cakes and Ale are so bitchily insightful about the hypocrisies of literary culture that, if you’re a writer, your loved ones might want to hide out somewhere else while you’re reading it, lest you follow them around the house, cackling over and orating your favorite parts. Scandal erupted in bookish London when the . . .