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Olivia Laing on Drinking and Writing

What is it about writers and drinking? The alcoholic writer is almost a cliché—but like most clichés, it’s grounded in reality.

In her new book, The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, Olivia Laing takes a look at six brilliant but troubled American writers: John Cheever, Raymond Carver, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams and John Berryman. Explore with her the link between filling pages and emptying bottles.











When: Thu., Jan. 9, 2014 at 7:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
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What is it about writers and drinking? The alcoholic writer is almost a cliché—but like most clichés, it’s grounded in reality.

In her new book, The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, Olivia Laing takes a look at six brilliant but troubled American writers: John Cheever, Raymond Carver, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams and John Berryman. Explore with her the link between filling pages and emptying bottles.

Buy tickets/get more info now