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The Dry Piper

William Wilson was, by his own account and those of others, a degenerate alcoholic. After a quasi-religious epiphany, he “cured” himself and went on to...

Lush Lit Book Reviews: Girl Gone Mild

Girl Gone Mild Smashed by Koren Zailckas Viking Press I was sold on the title alone: Smashed, a term that brings warmth to the heart of a...
Bartender's Burden

Bartender’s Burden

You’re an idiot. Maybe you know it, maybe you don’t. Maybe you’ve heard it from dozens of people, but you were kinda drunk at the...

Got Kymyz?

From Tatarstan to Kyrgyzstan to Tuva, in what used to be the great thirsty interior of the Soviet Union, Central Asian nomads have the...

Soused Cinema

From the flickering beginnings of motion pictures to the multiplex-filling offerings of today, alcohol has played a major role in the movies. In fact, the...
Zen of Drinking Alone

The Zen of Drinking Alone

“What'd you get up to last night?” “Got wicked drunk.” “Yeah? Where'd you go?” “I didn't go anywhere. I drank at home.” “You had a party and didn't...

Why We Drink

And why so much? Just where the hell do we get off getting loaded all the time? Do we really need a reason? In...

A Guide to Manly Drinks

If you're a man aged anywhere from 21 to 35, I've got some sobering news for you. Your Grandmother is a better drinker than...

Tipping Points

A Blast from the Past Wealthy Americans adopted the practice of tipping as they traveled about Europe in the mid-19th Century. At the time, trans-Atlantic...
Adventures with Alcohol

Adventures with Alcohol: Genetically Predisposed

I’m in a pub in Malta, full of retired British men passing the evening the proper way. I sit on a tall bar stool...

The Greatest Drunk on Earth: Andre the Giant

Do you have a favorite drunkard? Some amazing man or woman, past or present, who stands colossus-like atop the Big Keg, the ground below littered...

Guns and Tequila: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah

Until very recently, Hollywood was chock-full of drunkards. Some of our finest writers, directors and actors have turned in Academy-quality drinking performances. Whether you're talking...

The Great Drunk: Lushing Large with Jackie Gleason, Part 2

In 1950 Jackie Gleason was going everywhere and nowhere at once. He was getting plenty of work on Broadway and in the nightclubs, even a...

Drunkus Maximus

Bibamus moriendum est. Death is Inevitable; Let's Get Drunk. —Roman Aphorism Turn on the news or flip through a magazine and you are confronted with stories of greed,...

So You Want to Write a Cocktail Guide!

Good for you! But be aware that there is already a massive, ever-growing zombie horde of cocktail guides out there, so you'll need a fresh...

Top Shelf Love

I The alarm clock went off and I reached out and found that there was still a bit of scotch left in the bottle, so...

How to Perpetuate the Weekend Getaway

There comes a time in every man’s life when he suddenly realizes that he has entered a new phase. He finds himself in his thirties,...

Know Your Bartender

Bartenders are a special breed of cat. They are more than mere dispensers of alcohol, if that was the sum of their worth they would...

Columns and Regular Features

Booze-Soaked Fiction

Adventures with Alcohol

All the Pretty Pictures

How To Articles

Drunkards of the Issue

Inebriate Interviews

Clash of the Tightest

The Great Drunks

Historical Hooching